Online Academic & Language Links
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Online
general English resources
Listening and Listening Skills
and Pronunciation Development
Online
academic writing and study resources and Rhetorical
Skills
Numeracy Skills Development and Top-end
academic writing skills
Avoiding plagiarism and
Writing for Business and Writing for
Science
Writing for History & Political Science
and Writing for Sociology
Writing for
Law and Legal Writing Skills and Critical Thinking Skills
Other Online Learning Links: Worldwide Exchanges &
Foreign Languages
Online general English resources
Listening:
Australia's ABC
Late Night Live: The greatest ever Australian, Philip Adams, interviews high-consequence
people from around the globe.
Academic
listening
American
Rhetoric: Listening
Listen to English is a great site for using podcasts (with scripts) to quickly improve your English.
The Reith Lectures, with transcripts, from the BBC. Great for voicework and lexis enriching.
BBC World Service: Learning English
Real-English.com Free video-based interactive ESL
English listening lessons online at ELLLO
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening
Lab
General:
Ted Power is the ELT man with resources on just about everything!
Monash University has an amazing online language learning facility.
Joe-Flo's
Practice Cambridge Exams (Advanced level - also try Proficiency)
ACL: Australian
Centre for Languages (Tony Corballis has developed content on this site)
Capital
Community College: Grammar for advanced writing
UsingEnglish.com
Useful learning materials
English
Daily ESL resources for non-native English speakers
EloquentEnglish™
is training for fluent speakers of English to set up and run a club-based language
improvement programme, and have fun at the same time.
Advanced
grammar
English
Learner
Daily
Grammar
Dave's
ESL Cafe
British
Council
English
Study Direct
The
English Club
Online
English Grammar
English
to Go
British
Council Learning English Gateway
English
as a Second language - Kenneth Beare
Grammar
Safari at the Intensive English Institute, University of Illinois
This
site encourages you to work out grammar rules for yourself!
Punctuation
Made Simple. By Gary A. Olson
Selfaccess.com Help yourself!
Various grammar
activities]
Excellent site for grammar
work: Hong Kong
Same
site, different area: academic grammar
Professional
Communication, from Hong Kong University
Elements
of Style from Bartleby
Sentence
and paragraph level grammar
Pronunciation:
Online academic writing and study resources
University
of Hertfordshire: English for Academic Purposes Impressive and comprehensive
advice, materials and exercises by Andy Gillett at the University of Hertfordshire
(recommended by Tony Corballis who met Andy at a BALEAP
conference).
BALEAP
is the British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes.
It is a network of centres where EAP is taught within British Universities. BALEAP
has links to useful resources including EAP website and journals.
Middlesex
University: English Language and Learning Support for students in higher education
Middlesex's very thorough academic English support is offered electronically on
their 'Oasis' pages. Tony Corballis has written materials for both Oasis and for
various Middlesex University courses.
The Australian Centre for Languages
(ACL),which provides
fast quality-assured pathways for international learners to enter the Australian
university system. Tony Corballis has written extensive content for them, found
in their curriculum suite at aclenglish.com
The Writing Lab & The OWL at Purdue (Purdue University) is a great online resource for academic English and is growing every day.
The Virtual Language Centre can help you develop your writing with a self-access guide.
Monash University has an amazing resource for helping you with all aspects of language development and academic study skills.
Writing at the University of Toronto
Academic Writing Self-Access Page (from Central European University, Hungary) An interesting site. Links to guides on writing research papers, putting together literature reviews, writing position papers, preparing oral presentations etc.
Evaluating Information Found on the Internet. Johns Hopkins University
The Fundamentals of Critical Reading and Effective Writing. By Dan Kurland
An
excellent English
learning wiki
Becoming
a Masters student - covers all aspects of the process.
Learning
strategies from Performance, Learning, Leadership & Knowledge
Everything
to do with studying and study
skills
Writing
- extensive website with considerable reesources
Everything to do with studying
properly
More to do with study skills
Yet more to do with studying
Writing
academic English
Whole
writing
programme from Dartmouth
Vocabulary
development
Academic
communication
Writing argument
essays
Variety
of academic writing
Extensive lists of useful
academic phrases and terms
Rhetorical skills:
Mathematics and numerical skills
Avoiding Plagiarism
Using
Sources in your Writing: Colorado State University
Plagiarism:
How to avoid it. Indiana University
Plagiarism
workshop - practical cases
Note: there are extensive guides on avoiding plagiarism and referencing in the above academic writing resource section.
Top-end
Academic Writing
University of Kansas: Research Papers
Turning
an Academic Essay Into a Research Article: University of Toronto Health Sciences
Writing Center
How to write a Literature Review: University of Queensland
Thesis Proposals: The difference between MA and PhD research. University of New South Wales
The PhD Thesis, by Joseph Levine
Writing for Business:
Business
Writing from Wisconsin
More on Business
Writing
Writing for Science:
Writing skills especially for scientists
Writing for History and Political Science:
Penning The Past: Advice on Writing in the Historical Disciplines Department of History, Brown University
Political Science: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Writing for Sociology:
Writing a Sociology Paper: Dartmouth Writing Program
Writing for Law and legal writing
Postgraduate Research in Law: University of Wollongong
Law
Dissertations including some examples
Legal Abbreviations manual
Legal Abbreviations from the Law Library at Washington, USA
Legal Abbreviations at Cardiff
Legal
Dictionaries: Latin
More Legal
Dictionaries: Latin
General Legal
Dictionary
Another Legal
Dictionary
Yet another Legal
Dictionary
Legal
Citation: an interactive tutorial
Citation
Machine - similar to Procite
Legal Reasoning: the Law
Nerds
Legal
Reasoning: legal research
Law Blogs:
Extensive
blogger, especially on UK law
Bryan
Garner- excellent for legal writing
Legal
Writing from Raymond Ward
Legal
Writing Blog
Legal
style for writing
Legal
Language
Legal Education: requires registration
More on Legal Writing [excellent for Business writing too]
Classic
essay on legal writing
Online guide to good
legal writing
Variety of activities for improving
legal writing
More activities for improving
legal writing
ldeas
& activities for communicating clearly, mostly in legal contexts: Cheryl
Stephen's commercial site and service, but extensive free materials too
Critical Thinking:
Resources for illustrating
& teaching critical thinking
Resources for teaching
critical thinking
Dictionary
of related phenomena, from sceptics!
Guardian Newspaper's examples
of bad thinking, bad use of logic
Internet
detective - evaluating sources
Spotting
and avoiding fallacies in arguments
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