Writing skills

Birkbeck guides

Get Ahead: Stay Ahead - online tutorials

Online resources

  • Mind mapping
  • Advice on Academic Writing: comprehensive site from the University of Toronto. Includes advice on reading and researching, style and editing, planning and organizing and using sources. Also has a section for writers of English as a second language
  • CAPLITS Online Writing Centre: This is an online resource from the Institute of Education, primarily intended to advise, guide and provide support for students in the realisation of their written work.
  • Online workshops from the University Writing Center, George Mason University
  • The OWL at Purdue – Online Writing Lab: 'a stand-alone reference for thousands of writers worldwide'. One of the oldest and most extensive online writing resource sites. Check here for grammar explanations, quizzes, vocabulary exercises and answers to common questions.
  • Paradigm Online Writing Assistant: Online interactive writer's guide and handbook.
  • HyperGrammar - Writing Paragraphs: Looks at outlining, topic sentence, dividing your argument, developing unified and coherent paragraphs – University of Ottawa Writing Centre
  • Paragraph Punch: an interactive online paragraph writing tutorial
  • Paragraph Writing Tips: Writing DEN
  • Paragraph Writing: BBC Skillswise
  • Writing Paragraphs: Discusses topic, flow, signalling, cohesion and contains exercises and a test – University of Hertfordshire UEfAP
  • Psychology with Style: A guide to the writing conventions observed in psychology. It summarizes a lot of the material available in the Publication Manual of the APA and is oriented toward undergraduate students
  • Writing in the Sciences: from University of North Carolina

Science writing: online resources

  • Guide to science writing: guide to writing lab reports from Southampton University
  • LabWrite: Comprehensive guide to writing up whole experimentation/laboratory process. (From North Carolina State University: conventions might differ so check with your school)

Style guides: online resources