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General resources
Using English for Academic Purposes (one of the greatest resources for international students learning in an English-speaking environment, and not only) Academic Success Center Getting Started with and Developing Your Academic Skills (from the University of Southampton, updated regularly) Academic Language and Style (from Newcastle University) Learning English for Academic Purposes (site in construction from the University of Warwick. Very good tips and advice!) BBC Talk About English Series (A 12-part Academic English-related downloadable audio files with transcripts) The Student Development Center (from the University of Ontario, plenty of resources for writing with downloadable Word handouts) The Online Writing and Learning Link (from Massey University, New Zealand) Skills@Library (University of Leeds amazing tutorials. It's definitely worth a try. Great stuff!) English for Academic Purposes - an extensive list of resources for all skills compiled by Damian Rivers. It can be used as a starting point for further search.

Academic Listening
Using English for Academic Purposes Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab Academic English from the Student Learning Center at Massey University, Australia: Here you can listen and practice your academic English vocabulary. Great resource for intermediate/higher intermediate students.

Academic Reading and Vocabulary
Level tests online (Find how many words you know) University Words List Flashcards Practice your academic English vocabulary. [|Effective Reading]

Academic Writing
ESLFlow (essay writing and many other English learning resources) Central European University Online Writing Resources Academic Phrasebank (University of Manchester, concise and well-structured resources for academic writing) Purdue Online Writing Lab (one of the most reliable and constantly updated resources on grammar, writing, and not only)

**1. Writing Mechanics**
Access the Online Writing Laboratory (Purdue University) for presentations and exercises on: Subject-Verb Agreement 2at University of Wisconsin - Madison
 * Higher/Lower Order Concerns for Revising Your Paper
 * Improving Sentence Clarity
 * Parts of Speech Overview
 * Sentence Clarity Presentation Download the Powerpoint Presentation, watch it and then do the exercises below.
 * [|Sentence Fragments] Fragments and Run-ons
 * Sentence Clauses
 * Run-ons, comma splices, fused sentences
 * Subject-Verb Agreement 1>
 * Use of Articles
 * Clear concise and direct sentences
 * Use of Passive Voice from Purdue OWL.
 * Improving your understanding of grammar and punctuation - an excellent guide accompanied by practice from University of Bristol.

2. Paragraph Writing
Access Using English for Academic Purposes (UEFAP) site and work through the following topics and exercises:
 * Introduction to Writing Paragraphs, Topic, Flow, Cohesion
 * Exercises

Good examples and practice at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Paragraph Development and Types of Paragraphs with very useful tables of vocabulary needed for writing.
 * Basic Paragraph Structure
 * Practice Paragraph Recognition, Topic Sentences, Building Paragraphs with interactive tutorials at the University of Victoria, Australia
 * Transitions: explaining how various parts of sentence/text are linked in a logical way. See also the following link.
 * [|Academic Phrasebank] Functions of Academic Writing (defining, classifying, compare and contrast, etc) at Manchester University (excellent resource with plenty of examples and references, extremely helpful when you get down to write your academic written assignments)
 * UEFAP's well structured presentation of functions in academic English

**Paraphrasing, summarising and quoting**

 * Brief Guide from the Learning Centre, The University of New South Wales
 * Explanations and exercises from UEFAP
 * Brief explanations from Monash University

**Referencing and Quoting**

 * Key skills online guide at the University of Surrey. Enter the site by clicking **Enter**, click on **Writing Skills** and find the **Referencing** tutorial.
 * References and Citingfrom UEFAP
 * Citing References from the Writing Centre at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
 * The Citing Machine from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University can help you build citations by inserting the necessary information.
 * Neil's Tool Box a collection of simple online tools to do things quickly and easily. For example you can generate a Harvard citation, check your work for plagiarism, creates quick links to resources on the web where you may not have thought of searching, etc. Fun and easy to use!
 * Authorship and Plagiarism site from the University of Essex. A detailed presentation of these important notions pertaining to academic integrity.
 * Referencing Skills at MySkills site at the University of Essex.
 * Avoiding Plagiarism handout and a Quiz on Plagiarism from the University of New South Wales

4. Proofreading
Proofreading strategies from the Writing Centre at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Improving your understanding of grammar and punctuation - an excellent guide accompanied by practice from University of Bristol. 20 most common errors for writers in social sciences

5. Writing Tutorials
Academic Writer - The Polytechnic University from Hong Kong offers an extremely useful step-by-step tutorial for writing essays Writing Essays at Tertiary Level - a guidebook created by the University of Melbourne Writer's Handbook - instructional materials from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Very helpful! Academic Grammar is more than just an online grammar. It is a rich resource for writing in the arts and social sciences provided by the Hong Kong University. University of Toronto writing handouts are extremely useful and cover all aspects of academic writing.

6. Writing in Chemistry
[|Help with Writing Your Report] [|Write a Short Scientific Paper in Chemical Engineering]

7. E-mail Writing
[|E-mail etiquette]

**Dictionaries**
> Try also Merriam Webster Visual Dictionary Onlin
 * [|Bartleby.com] includes database of more than twenty reference works, (encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and English usage), such as: Bulfinch, 1913; the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition, 2000; the American Heritage Book of English Usage, 1996; Roget's II: the New Thesaurus, 3rd edition, 1995; the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, 2000; and more.
 * Cambridge English Dictionaries Online a variety of dictionaries for English language learning
 * [|The Century Dictionary Online] "the largest freely available online dictionary."
 * [|Glossarist]: a searchable directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries.
 * [|Hypertext Webster Gateway] access various dictionary services.
 * [|Infoplease.com] includes the contents of the Information Please Almanacs;coverage includes world, us, history & government, biography, sports, arts & entertainment, health and science, etc.
 * [|Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition]
 * [|WordNet] online lexical system developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University.
 * [|Wordsmyth:The Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus]
 * Princeton University WordNet

Learning English is fun!
British Council Learn English (resurse variate pentru invatarea limbii engleze) BBC and Open University Online Learning Website ESL YouTube Videos (colectie de clipuri video pe o multime de teme) World-English (portal de resurse pentru toate nivelele) Test Your English Online English for College (un site supersimpatic realizat de un colegiu francez, resurse inepuizabile!) BBC Learning English You Tube Channel ascultare si vizionare de clipuri pe diverse teme. BBC Learning English 6 minute English Series - resursa excelenta pentru activitati de ascultare Conversational English - site orientativ pentru teme generale de conversatie.

**Listening**
English Online France AudioEnglish. Conversatii uzuale Elllo English Listening Online (invatati engleza in mod natural ascultand vorbitori din toata lumea)

**Reading**
English Online France Learning Resources - old site - variate exercitii de lectura pe teme generale preluate din presa/media Learning Resources - new site - ca mai sus, cu mai multe exercitii interactive

**Grammar**
English Online France UVic's Grammar Zone Verb Tense Tutorial. The English Page English Test Net - you can test yourself in a variety of areas; quizzes; common errors etc OWL at Purdue University - comprehensive site that needs exploring Study Zone at University of Victoria grammar presentations and interactive exercises LearnEnglishFeelGood - grammar, vocabulary, video-based lessons, etc Learn Grammar Movies by the British Council Exercises at Grammar Bytes [|BBC World Service Grammar and Vocabulary] - explanations: [| Confusing words and expressions]; [| Prefixes, suffixes, spelling and pronunciation]; [| Determiners, nouns and pronouns]; [| Adjectives and adverbs]; [| Verbs and tenses]; [| Modals and conditionals]; [| Conjunctions and clauses]; [| Prepositions and phrases]; [| Learning and exam skills]. Centre for Independent Learning at Hong-Kong Polytechnic University Grammar Slammer - a very good reference grammar Diagnostic Test from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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**All skills**
Learn English Online English Learner (lectii si teste pentru toate nivelele) Englisch-Hilfen. Learning English - Exercises, Grammar