Writing Resources & Activities

Paraphrasing/Summarizing

• OWL's Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
• Harvard's Guide
• Paraphrasing Exercise

General Sites

• Online Writing Lab (OWL) - Purdue University   OWL Exercises 
• Englishpage.com
• ESLFlow Academic Writing Guides
• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
• Advice on Academic Writing
• My-English-Writing.com
• The Writing Center - University of Wisconsin at Madison
• Writing Resources for English Language Learners - Ohio University ESL
• Writer's Web - University of Richmond
• Hypertext Writer's Guide - University of Victoria
• Advanced Composition for Non-Native Speakers of English
• E. L. Easton - Writing
• Rong Chang Writing
• Academic English Cafe
• Collocation Worksheets
  
  Korean Writing Style 
• A Comparison of Rhetorical Styles in Korean and American Student Writing
• Differences in Writing in English, Korean
• Korean Writing Process: Key Approaches to Tutoring Korean ESL Students

Vocabulary Practice Sites

• Quizlet.com Flashcards (Language & Vocabulary, Standardized Tests) 
• FreeRice.com (no login) 
• Memrise.com (create your own account or use ID: pufsttp Password: 4CALL-fun) 
• Vocabulary.com (login optional) 
• Vocabulary exercises
• Thesaurus.com
• Visualthesaurus.com
• List of descriptive adjectives

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Specific Writing Tips

Purdue's Online Writing Lab has an extensive range of guides about various aspects of writing. 

Purdue OWL Site Map

Selected Guides 
• Punctuation
• Parallel Structure
• Help with Capitals
• Rules for Writing Numerals
• Writing Numbers
• Subject-Verb Agreement
• Verb Tense Consistency
• Separable Phrasal Verbs
• Inseparable Phrasal Verbs
• Intransitive Phrasal Verbs
  More Phrasal Verb Examples & Explanation

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Activities

From Englishpage.com

Prepositions and Phrasal Verbs

• Mixed Phrasal Verbs 1
• Mixed Phrasal Verbs 2
• Mixed Phrasal Verbs 3
• Mixed Phrasal Verbs 4
• Mixed Phrasal Verbs 5

• Mixed Prepositions 1
• Mixed Prepositions 2
• Mixed Prepositions 3
• Mixed Prepositions 4
• Mixed Prepositions 5
• Mixed Prepositions 6

OWL Exercises

• Grammar Exercises

Adjective or Adverb Exercise 1

Adjective or Adverb Exercise 2

Appositive Exercise

A or An? Exercise

Articles Exercise 1

Articles Exercise 2

Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 1

Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 2

Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 3

Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 4

Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 5

Quantity Terms Exercise

Prepositions of Direction Exercise

Tense Consistency Exercise 1

Tense Consistency Exercise 2

Tense Consistency Exercise 3

Tense Consistency Exercise 4

• Punctuation Exercises

Punctuation Exercise
Apostrophes Exercise

Quotation Marks Exercise

Comma Exercise 1

Comma Exercise 2

Comma Exercise 3

Comma Exercise 4

Comma Exercise 5

After Introductions Exercise 1

After Introductions Exercise 2

After Introductions Exercise 3

Commas vs. Semicolons - Compound Sentences

Nonessential Elements Exercise 1

Nonessential Elements Exercise 2

Nonessential Elements Exercise 3

• Spelling Exercises

-ible and -able Spelling Exercise 1

-ible and -able Spelling Exercise 2

Accept/Except Spelling Exercise

Affect/Effect Spelling Exercise

EI/IE Spelling Rules Exercise 1

EI/IE Spelling Rules Exercise 2

EI/IE Spelling Rules Exercise 3

EI/IE Spelling Rules Exercise 4

• Sentence Structure

Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses Exer

Sentence Fragments Exercise 1

Sentence Fragments Exercise 2

Sentence Fragments Exercise 3

Run-ons, Comma Splices, and Fused Sentences

Subject and Verb Agreement Exercise

• Sentence Style

Eliminating Wordiness Exercise 1

Eliminating Wordiness Exercise 2

Eliminating Wordiness Exercise 3

• Paraphrasing

Paraphrasing Exercise

• Writing Numbers

Writing Numbers Exercise