Writing skills - Sentence fragments - run on sentences and comma splices

Writing skills - run on sentences and comma splices.

This site shows how to correct run on sentences and comma splices.

This site gives information  on sentence fragments and 'Run on's

This website (Grammar Revolution) has some useful information on 'Run on sentences'

Writing skills - Run on sentences

Writing skills - sentence fragments - sentence run on and comma splices

Writing skills, - Run on sentences and comma splices

Writing skills - comma splices

Writing skills - Electronic resource referencing

This you tube clip give information on how to reference electronic references.

Writing skills - APA Referencing...The Basics

This you tube clip deals with APA Referencing and gives details of 'In text referencing' and  tips on how to make a 'Reference list'
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Writing skills - Paraphrasing

This you tube clip gives some examples mof paraphrasing at sentence and paragraph level.

Also checkout the online site here that allows you to input text, make your paraphrase and then check the two texts to see how they compare.

Writing skills - In text citations

This you tube clip defines paraphrasing and quoting and tells how to reference them correctly in text using APA reference style.

Writing skills - summarising text

This you tube clip offers suggestions for writing a text summary.

Writing skills - summarising text

This you tube clip will give you some tips for summarising a text.

Writing skills - Paraphrasing

This you tube clip gives useful tips on paraphrasing

Common linking words

This is a link to a page with 4 different exercises that allow you to practise common linking words that express contrast / purpose / reason / time, (such as ‘although’ , ‘despite’, ‘moreover’, ‘in addition’, ‘as a result’, ‘owing to’, ‘at first’, ‘eventually’). Useful practise for essay writing!

Also, check out the “Word Bank” on the left hand side of this page – it has a new phrasal verb/word formation/collocation each day to learn and practise.

The WORD BANK that pops up at the side of the page these exercises are on looks interesting – they have a new word every day that they can do an exercise on.  Have fun.

Sentence structure writing practice

The are some very useful exercises here to help you with sentence structure to practice your writing.

Towson University online writing support

Here is a good site to help you with developing your writing skills. It gives very good explanations about the correct use of many aspects of written language such as:- parts of speech, sentence structure and plagiarism. It has self teaching units and a writing support hot line where you can ask a question about writing or grammar and they will respond within 24 hours.