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English Writing Skills - Letters, Resumes and Writing Style

English writing skills including formal and informal style, resumes, cover letters, and other business documents, essays and free lesson plans.
  1. Beginning Writing (10)
  2. Intermediate Writing (24)
  3. Advanced Writing (38)
  4. Writing Style (34)
  5. Writing for Work (22)
  6. Writing Lesson Plans (24)

How I Improved My English Writing Skills

English learners share their stories about how they improved their English writing skills.

How to Write a Resume

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.

How to Write an Essay

A simple essay follows the same basic structure for most essay writing.

Teaching Writing: Strategies

A focus on effective strategies for teaching writing to the ESL learner.

Comparing Ideas

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.

Introduction to Poetic Devices

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).

Newspaper Reading and Writing

This lesson focuses on calling students' attention to this type of writing style on a deeper, grammatical level. It ends with students writing up their own short articles with a follow-up listening comprehension opportunity.

Learn English on Twitter

Introduction to a new English writing practice service using Twitter provided by Kenneth Beare.

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