Improving Your Writing

Welcome

This interactive site has been developed for students studying in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology at Victoria University - Australia, who are interested in further developing their writing skills for academic and professional purposes.

While many of the topics are relevant to the needs of students from language backgrounds other than English, native speakers will find that some of the topics are of general interest.

We currently recommend visitors use Internet Explorer to access this site as it transmits the interactive applications more reliably than other browsers.

Currently available topics	Other important pages
Article words (a, an, the) Comparisons Double negatives Linking ideas Non-discriminatory language Pronoun use Sentences: basic definitions Sentences: common errors Sentences: simple and compound Sentences: complex and compound-complex Subject/verb agreement	Acknowledgments Index Important information Suggestions for using this site Other useful sites

Topics that are being developed
*Concise Writing
We add new topics regularly. Your comments on our work would be appreciated. Email us at: Janis.Webb@vu.edu.au
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summary of project members' activities: These topics are not ready for student use. new 2003 topics Concise Writing JW to check for final time M30.29 parallel structure reviewing print version Aug 2003 tenses 5 clauses: noun clauses: adjective clauses: adverbs active / passive voice prepositions spelling words that are often confused Linking ideas no box shading yet DR to do self-check heading format for all tenses Tenses: introduction and simple (formatting in progress; interactive application complete - testing and revising will begin soon - JW has emailed OR with requests for minor changes- OR has attended to minor changes and emailed comments (see E&S website) with updated files-JW to download and check. Tenses: continuous (formatting in progress: interactive application complete - testing and revising will begin soon -JW has emailed OR with requests for minor changes- OR has attended to minor changes and emailed comments (see E&S website) with updated files-JW to download and check.) Tenses: perfect (formatting in progress: interactive application complete - testing and revising will begin soon - JW has emailed OR with requests for minor changes- OR has attended to minor changes and emailed comments (see E&S website) with updated files-JW to download and check.) Tenses: perfect continuous (formatting in progress: interactive application complete - testing and revising will begin soon - JW has emailed OR with requests for minor changes- OR has attended to minor changes and emailed comments (see E&S website) with updated files-JW to download and check.) REVISION IN PROGRESS These topics are currently under review for consistency of presentation. They are still fully operational, but we ask you to bear with our personal notations which appear on this page only. Article words (a, an, the) (DR to review hyperlinks re spacing at end of each page - done) Double negatives (JW to check page hyperlinks) Non-discriminatory language (JW to check page hyperlinks); fonts are a problem JW to attend to - have changed prob font on page 3-check to see ok still (DR to review hyperlinks re spacing at end of each page; change 'look' of title in hyperlink on last page - done) Pronoun use (JW to check page hyperlinks) Problem with width Sentences: basic definitions (JW to check page hyperlinks) Sentences: common errors(JW to check page hyperlinks ok) Subject/verb agreement (JW to check page hyperlinks) TOPICS for Future Development Active and passive verbs (print copy to be revised) Clauses: noun (planned) Clauses: adverb (writing of print copy in progress) Clauses: adjective (writing of print copy in progress) Punctuation: commas (planned) Spelling - plurals (writing of print copy in progress) Words that are often confused (writing of print copy in progress) Formal register (writing of print copy in progress) Prepositions (writing of print copy in progress)

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