English Writing Resources Online

Do you feel lost when it comes to writing in English? A private native tutor is the best way to develop your writing skills since you will have individual attention and customised tuition with instant feedback, but there is also an abundance of online resources to help you improve your English writing skills.

There is information ranging from understanding the structure of essays, planning, and organisation using the correct tone and developing your own style in order to produce superlative work.

Essay Writing

Ohio University Department of Linguistics – English Writing

This is a comprehensive reference link site with internal and external essay writing resources from this renowned university

The American University in Cairo – How to write an essay : 10 East Steps

This is a great site detailing every aspect of writing right from the research stage to the choice of language. Highly recommended for beginners.

The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)

OWL gives detailed help on writing, grammar, style and citation guides such as APA and MLA. One great section focuses on Developing an Essay Outline and another concentrates on Proofreading. It's a massive site that has great resources for every budding writer.

The Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

POWA is a comprehensive site, which looks at the various stages of writing from choosing a top right through to editing your final document. Its clear layout makes using it very easy.

Timed Essays – Top 5 Tips – by Dennis G. Gerz

Writing essay’s at home is difficult enough but it’s even harder when you have to write an essay in an exam. This site gives invaluable help for students who need to write essays in an exam context in order to get the highest scores.

College Application Essay Tips

Writing your Personal Statement is one of the most difficult essay tasks you will ever have to do in your whole life. So much depends on it and you have to show the adission committee that you stand out from the other applicants. This great site gives wonderful instructions on how to write stunning college essays.

Best Essay Tips

A free private site giving cpmprehensive information on all aspects of the essay writing process. It has free downloadable e-books. Highly recommended.

HK English.com has a range of English writing courses for academic and business writing. Their experienced, friendly native tutors can give you expert tuition on English vocabulary use, style, organisation, grammar and proofreading.