Writing Skills
Guides to help you improve the way you write.
Writing Skills
Ten Easy Ways to Improve your Writing
This guide is a collection of ten easy ways you can improve your writing.
Writing Skills Guide
Punctuation helps the reader to make sense of what has been written. This guide provides instructions for the following skills: comma, comma fault, the colon, the semicolon, the apostrophe and capitals.
Sentence Structure
This guide provides instructions on how to structure a sentence.
Sentence Fragments
This guides describes sentence fragments.
Paragraph Structure
This guide provdes instructions on how to structure a paragraph.
Paragraphs - 1
Quiz - test your knowledge of paragraphs.
Paragraphs - 2
Quiz - test your knowledge of paragraphs.
Sentence Starters and Transitional Words
A list of sentence starters, transitional and other useful words.
Academic Phrasebank
The Academic Phrasebank is a general resource for academic writers.
Getting Started with Writing
This guide will provide you with tips for getting started with your writing.
Writing about Percentages
This guide will help you with writing about percentages.
Proofreading Strategies
This guide will help you with proofreading strategies.
Language Skills
Science Root Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes
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a list of scientific root words, prefixes and suffixes.
Parts of Speech Guide
This guide describes the following parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, conjunctions, propositions, interjections and articles.
Articles - 1
Quiz - test your knowledge of articles.
Articles - 2
Quiz - test your knowledge of articles.
Confusing Words
Quiz - test your knowledge of confusing words.
Subject-Verb Agreement
Quiz - test your knowledge of subject-verb agreement.
Root Word Matching - 1
Quiz - test your knowledge of root words.
Root Word Matching - 2
Quiz - test your knowledge of root words.
Root Word Matching - 3
Quiz - test your knowledge of root words.
Using One Word Instead of Many
Quiz - complete the crossword.
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