English advanced level writing help designed to help improve upper level English writing skills including essay and letter writing.
Business English writing resources for English learners include standard business letter formating and examples, common business documents and essential job application cover letter and resume examples.
Parallel structure explained in easy English for intermediate level English learners such as ESL and EFL classes.
Introduction to a new English writing practice service using Twitter provided by Kenneth Beare.
A guide to strong collocating emphatic expressions used in formal written and spoken English for English learners and ESL classes.
A guide to basic paragraph construction for use in English as a second language classes focusing on the main components of standard paragraphs.
Review of Babylon Translation @ a Click Dictionary by the guide to English as a 2nd Language at about.com. This review focuses on the strength of Babylon for ESL learners.
Example business letter for a claim adjustment letter.
A guide to the basics of writing business letters including common salutations, requests and an example letter. By your About.com ESL guide.
First in a series of four lessons is designed to help students become familiar with writing an essay in English. The first lesson is designed to give students an overview of basic essay writing style. The final three lessons focus on developing skills that are used when analyzing texts as the basis of their essays.
Top business English books for English as special purposes learners and teachers. These books can help you improve your English for specific business situations.
These sentence connectors are used to make comparisons between ideas in an elegant manner. The use of these connectors will add sophistication to your writing style.
Combine simple sentences to make complex sentence to practice your writing skills.
There are a number of words and phrases that can help express your opinion. These words and phrases are common in creative writing, writing reports, and other types of writing intended to persuade.
Once students have decided what they need to write about, they often have a hard time actually developing the material to include in the essay. For this reason, this interview format exercise develops ideas about various characters which can later be used to help them write an essay.
Some words and phrases help to develop ideas and relate them to one another. These kinds of words and phrases are often called discourse markers. Note that most of these discourse markers are formal and used when speaking in a formal context or when presenting complicated information in writing.
This final lesson in this series helps students put their observations into written form by asking them to fill out a questionnaire. Students can then take these replies and incorporate them into their final essay.
Use the power of the Internet to translate either text OR an entire Internet page quickly from English into your native language, or vice versa.
Examples and discussion of how to write a business email and other important company documents.
Examples and discussion of how to write a business memo and other important company documents.
Examples and discussion of how to write a business report and other important company documents.
Writing a Resume - curriculum vitae or CV - in English can be quite different than in your native tongue. This "how to" helps you develop a standard English resume.
A simple essay follows the same basic structure for most essay writing.
Understanding poetry in any language is challenging, here is basic introduction to poetic devices used in poetry written in English (as well as other languages).
Example business letter for a claim letter.
Example business letter for placing an order at a company.
Example guide to the basics of writing a letter of enquiry.
Sentence transformation exercises for advanced level English learning classes. These exercises are especially useful for preparing for tests such as the TOEFL, FCE, CAE and Proficency Cambridge Exams.
Narrative paragraphs are often used to describe our routines. Read this example narrative paragraph, notice how words like 'sometimes, often, etc.' are used to say often something happens.
Narrative paragraphs are often used to describe what a person does over a period of time. Use these exercises to help you improve your narrative paragraph writing skills.
Example business letter for placing an order at a company.
Once you have mastered the basics of correct usage in written English, you will want to express yourself in increasingly complex ways. These sentence connectors help you provide additional information.
The use of these sentence connectors will add sophistication to your writing style when trying to show opposing points of view.
Relative clauses provide extra information. This information can either define something (defining clause), or provide unnecessary, but interesting, added information (non-defining clause).
Example guide to the basics of responding to a letter of enquiry.
The ability to rewrite sentences so that they have the same meaning as the original is often required for many English ESL EFL Exams such as Cambridge's First Certificate, CAE and Proficiency. This skill can also help you prepare for the TOEFL examination (Test of English as a Foreign Language). There are five of these exercises in this series.
Sentence transformation exercises help you expand your usage skills through testing various ways of stating the same idea. For example, the sentence 'I've lived here since 2002.' can also be expressed: 'I moved here in 2002'. Complete the following sentences so that they mean the same as the original sentence. Answers can be checked on the following page.
Sentence connectors are used to express relationships between ideas and to combine sentences. The use of these connectors will add sophistication to your writing style. These sentence connectors provide the menas to show conditions.
These sentence connectors help you express relationships between ideas that show cause and effect.
Get the most out of your dictionary by understanding how to use it well. You can use your dictionary to find words, for meanings, for pronunciation, to check spellings, to understand explanations, to check spelling variations and more.
Students now have a better understanding of the various characters in the short story or book. Students can now deepen their understanding of the work at hand by analyzing the most important themes of the book and how the character would relate to those themes based on their previous work.
The cover letter should always be included when sending your resume or CV for a possible job interview. This letter of application serves the purpose or introducing you and asking for an interview. Here is an outline to writing a successful cover letter.
Writing a successful resume depends on many factors. Here is a simple guide to the basics of writing a good resume including an example resume.