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| Skills for Learning resources available through Blackboard |
| The Skills for Learning team has a comprehensive set of resources available on our Blackboard Communities site.
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If you have already been enrolled on the site, follow the course link below: Communication Skills Development for academic and professional purposes (Blackboard Course link) |
| Communication Skills Development - English grammar | |
| English grammar online | Skills for Learning's online guide to English grammar |
| Developing your academic writing skills - external links | |
| Advice on Academic Writing | Advice on academic writing from Toronto University, Canada. |
| Writing advice from Monash University | Monash University's website on academic writing and grammar. |
| Using English for Academic Purposes | This is a weblink to an online guide for students in Higher Education on English for Academic Purposes, created for the University of Hertfordshire. The section marked 'Accuracy' has some useful practice exercises |
| Online Writing Lab - Purdue University - USA | This site contains a guide to academic writing and grammar, complete with exercises. |
| Harvard University Writing Centre | A link to some resources on writing, prepared by Harvard University in the United States. |
| Visit our Blackboard site for more resources. | |
| Developing your vocabulary and range of expression - external links | |
| Oxford Reference Online | The site includes dictionaries and encyclopedia for specialist subjects such as: Art & Architecture, Biological Sciences, Classics, Computing, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Economics & Business, Food & Drink, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, and many more. |
| The Academic Word List (AWL) | A resource for identifying which words may be useful for a university student to learn. |
| Vocabulary Development Exercises for the Academic Word List | A useful site that has a list of words which appear with high frequency in English-language academic text. |
| Vocabulary Development Exercises for the Academic Word List (University of Hertfordshire) | A range of vocabulary building exercises based on the AWL. |
| Using an online concordancer to improve your English | This website allows you to type in a word in order to see how it is used in a number of sentences. These sentences are taken from a database of academic articles and English Literature. |
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