Writing

The OWL at Purdue: Purdue University’s amazing Online Writing Lab (OWL) offers a wealth of writing resources and instructional materials about the general writing process, academic writing, writing mechanics, grammar, punctuation and more. A must-visit!

CILL - Centre for Independent Language Learning: Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s comprehensive CILL website offers information for all ESL learners. The pages on Writing and English for Academic Purposes offer vast amounts of information on (academic) writing.

Guide to Grammar and Writing: the acclaimed Guide to Grammar and Writing of Capital Community College offers a wide array of information on…well…grammar and writing. From the general writing process and organisation, via paragraph structure and coherence, to grammar and punctuation: this site has it all – even dozens of quizzes.

Citation Style

Different disciplines use different citation and format styles. There is information galore on the internet, including “citation generators” that can help you save time.

• Research and Documentation Online: practical website with information on finding, evaluating and documenting sources in most disciplines.
• Citation Machine: generates “standard bibliographic and in-text citations” for MLA, APA and Chicago style citations.

Scientific Articles Online

Public Library of Science: open Access publications: freely available scientific and medical literature.

Directory of Open Access Journals: search engine for scientific articles.

TheLancet.com: “[O]ne of the world’s leading medical journals” online.

The Telegraph Science News: examples of popular writing for science in UK’s The Daily Telegraph.