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Online
Writing Resources 
The majority of online resources for essay writing are in the USA because colleges and universities have been helping students improve their writing skills a lot longer than anywhere else. Of course, standard caveats about different spelling and rhetoric conventions apply when using material from US sites. However, don’t forget to visit your institution’s and your department’s own websites!
Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab Like many of the best US sites this is aimed at both students and tutors. It’s impossible to list all the things you’ll find at Purdue but online resources include: printer-friendly handouts on writing concerns; PowerPoint presentations on writing skills, grammar, spelling and punctuation; and links to other online writing resources.
The Everyday Writer by Andrea Lunsford is the other US bestseller – in fact, both Lunsford and Hacker are published by Bedford/St.Martins. Like Diana Hacker’s site and Purdue, The Everyday Writer site also has links to web resources and online writing exercises. And it also has really useful areas like ‘The two0 most common errors’ and how to fix them.
The English Style Book: A Guide to the Writing of Scholarly
English Robert Clarke, a professor at UEA, has written his own guide to academic writing. Some may find the scholarly style a bit off-putting, but it's full of good features and well worth a visit.
This site explains why you write essays in a certain way. It gives easy to follow explanations of the expectations around academic writing, and is written specifically for UK undergraduates.
The Uvic Writer’s Guide This is a wide-ranging Canadian site and if you want quick accessible answers on the difference between expository and persuasive writing or advice on how to structure a paragraph then it’s a good place to start.
University of Bradford School of Management Scroll down the page to the Writing Assignments section - here you can download guides to various aspects of the essay writing process. The page also contains guides to other study-related topics.
Academic Writing Another wide-ranging American site, full of useful tips and definitions.
Diana Hacker Diana Hacker was one of the most successful writers of writing textbooks in the US. Nearly half of all colleges and universities there use at least one book from her range which includes A Writer’s Reference, A Pocket Style Manual and Rules for Writers. Diana Hacker’s site has useful links to Student sites and Instructor sites as well as lots of intriguing features like ‘Diana Hacker’s Language Debates’ which is a series of mini-essays on style and usage issues.
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