Resources for English Writing

English Writing

Types of Resources

Dictionaries Writing websitesWriting Centers on the internet

The dictionaries you need for writing

Types of Dictionaries

Conventional DictionariesDictionaries of Synonyms and Antonyms (Thesaurus)Dictionaries of CollocationDictionaries on CD-ROMs

Conventional Dictionaries

Dictionaries of Synonyms and Antonyms

Roget’s Thesaurus

Dictionaries of Collocation

英語搭配大辭典 (A Dictionary of English Collocations) 中央圖書出版社

Collocation Example: research

V + NDo/carry out/conduct/pursue research*make research

Adj. + NAcademic/comprehensive/independent/detailed/intensive/considerable research

N + Prep. A research for facts (a purpose)Research in linguistics (an academic subject)Research on diseases of the blood (a certain

topic)

Dictionaries on CD-ROMs

AdvantagesFast and convenientMore detailed

explanation than electronic dictionariesMulti-functional

GrammarUsage Thesaurus Examples

Easy to compile your own vocabulary reference list

ENCYCLOPEDIA

WRITING WEBSITES

Dictionaries on the Internet

Cambridge Dictionaries Onlinehttp://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Encarta World English Dictionaryhttp://dictionary.msn.com/

Collins Concordance and Collocations Sampler

http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/form.html/

Longman Web Dictionary http://www.longman-elt.com/dictionaries/ webdi

ctionary.html/

Cambridge Dictionaries Onlinehttp://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Encarta World English Dictionaryhttp://dictionary.msn.com/

Collins Concordance and Collocations Sampler

http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/form.html/ Longman Web Dictionary

http://www.longman-elt.com/dictionaries/ webdictionary.html/

WRITING CENTERS ON THE INTERNET

Writing Centers

UNC-Chapel Hillhttp://www.uncc.edu/writing/ wrcindex.

html UNC-Charlotte

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/ handouts/

Purdue University http://owl.English.purdue.edu/lab/owl/ index.html