We hope that the explanations and exercises in the links below will help you to improve your English. To find out which level of Academic writing class you should attend, click on English Support Services, do the Assessment test and press send. We will email you our advice.
If you would like online consultation regarding a specific English language or study skills problem related to these links please click here: online tutors (please note this is not a proof-reading service so do not send us your assignments).

Multiskill, Grammar & Punctuation

1) BBC World Service.com
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish
News and business English, video and listening, grammar and vocabulary, messageboards, frequently asked questions, quizzes and the opportunity to contact The BBC.

2) British Council
www.learnenglish.org.uk/adult_frame.html
A very comprehensive general English site containing recent historical information, tests, games, grammar, themes, links and surveys

English for Academic Purposes

3) Using English for Academic Purposes
www.uefap.co.uk
An excellent skills-based site for revising and practising many aspects of academic English and study skills. Answers provided on screen.

4) The Univeristy of Victoria's Hyper Text Writer's Guide
http://web.uvic.ca/wguide
A guide to academic writing with a focus on writing about literature. Includes information on organising essays, paragraphs and sentence structure.

Grammar, Academic Writing & Style

5) Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu
Useful study skills information as well as grammar presentations and exercises.

6) Guide to Grammar & Style
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/
An excellent guide to grammar and style.

7) NASA SP - 7084 Grammar, Punctuation and Capitalisation
http://stipo.larc.nasa.gov/sp7084/index.html
Extensive range of detailed examples of grammar, punctuation and captilisation

Vocabulary

8) British National Corpus
http://sara.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/lookup.html
The British National Corpus (BNC) is a collection of samples of written and spoken English. It consists of over 100 million words and is invaluable in its provision of examples of words in context.

9) Tim Johns English for Academic Purposes Page
http://www.eisu.bham.ac.uk/Webmaterials/kibbitzers/
An excellent vocabulary site based on cobuild's Worldwatch feature. This provides exercises to help students improve their use of a wide range of vocabulary and also the answers to the exercises.

10) "Game/fun" based teaching
http://www.elscafe.com