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English as a Foreign Language Across the Curriculum (EFLAC)
How
to improve your writing ability
On
translation: See "General Remarks on Translation" and "Translation Strategies."
Grammar,
Punctuation, and Composition (essay writing): See http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/.
This site has most of what you need to know, with online exercises.
You can also consult the Longman
Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English (Biber,
Conrad and Leech, 2002, ISBN 0 582 237270 hardback or 0 582 237262 paperback)
and the accompanying Workbook (ISBN 0 583 539420). The
Workbook has exercises, with the answers for self-correction.
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Proficiency Assessment Benchmarks
Corrected Essays
These are intended as
writing exercises. Read the original student essay first, and then compare it,
sentence by sentence, with the corrected/revised version on the right. What
changes were made and why? What further (especially stylistic and
compositional) improvements could be made? (Please note that I have most likely
made occasional mistakes myself in the corrrections, due to too much cutting
and pasting, and I would appreciate knowing about them.) For practice, the more
of these essays and corrections/revisions you work your way through, the
better. It doesn't matter what order you read them in.
Writing 2 Handout 4-5 (6 essays), Writing 2 Handout 6-7 (11 essays)
Writing 3 Handout 2 (20 essays), Writing 3 Handout 3 (4 essays), Writing 3 Handout 4 (8 essays), Writing 3 Handout 5 (7 essays), Writing 3 Handout 6 (2 essays), Writing 3 Handout 7 (3 essays), Essay # 1, Essay # 2, Essay #3
Practice
exams