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Dr. Michael Dickel's guide to writing college level academic English essays: organization, paragraphs, sentences, grammar help with useful links

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This site will help you expand your academic vocabulary using the Academic Word List (the AWL). All students, home students and overseas students, need to learn the technical vocabulary of their field. As learners of English preparing for academic study you also need to learn general academic vocabulary, words such as: feature, illustrate, regulate, strategy. This core academic vocabulary is used by writers in many different subject areas.

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Interdisciplinary perspectives on communication across the curriculum

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Citation is an incredibly useful writing tool designed to: Organize research notes and bibliographic information Write references (in any of 1000+ styles) automatically, right to your word processing document! Citation's easy to use system helps writers with two tasks that are essential to research writing: organizing notes, and composing bibliographic references - easily and efficiently.

Click the type of resource you wish to cite, complete the Web form that appears with information from your resource, and click Make Citations to generate standard MLA & APA citations.

Very useful site providing comparisons and actual bibliographic citations in MLA, APA, Turabian and Chicago styles

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Using English for Academic Purposes. A Guide for International Students

The Library Master bibliographic and textual database manager makes it easy to manage bibliographic information. Library Master automatically formats the bibliography, footnotes and citations for your paper, thesis or book in numerous bibliographic styles. It makes it easy to organize research notes and project records. Create an inexpensive online catalog for any collection of books, periodicals, audio-visuals, corporate documents and other materials.

A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources

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The Internet Grammar of English is an online course in English grammar written primarily for university undergraduates. However, we hope that it will be useful to everyone who is interested in the English language. IGE does not assume any prior knowledge of grammar.

This site's purpose is to help you write academic papers and college essays by discovering the erroneous tendencies that creep into your writing. You cannot see your tendencies without someone pointing out them out to you. When you know these tendencies before submitting the document for a grade, you have improved your chance to maximize the grade. The Twilocity review will improve the grade by at least the next level (i.e. from an A- to an A).

A site for students studying English for Academic Purposes with study tips and great links.