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Here are some of our favourite learning and writing websites and resources, as recommended by the staff of Learning Development and Success: Te Tari Āwhina.

Academic writing

• Academic Writing: A guide to tertiary level writing
  From Massey University’s excellent online writing and learning link.
• Academic Phrasebank
  From the University of Manchester, this is a general resource for academic writers and aims to provide examples of some of the phraseological "nuts and bolts" of writing.
• Essay Writing Guide
  From the Royal Literary Fund, UK. This site is a toolbox of essay writing skills and resources that looks at the whole essay writing process - from preparing and planning to completion.
• Clearer Writing
  From The University of Sydney.
• The University of Victoria (Canada) Writer's Guide
  A great comprehensive writing guide, this site addresses specific tasks such as essay and thesis writing, as well as generic writing skills like grammar and paragraph construction.
• The University of Wisconsin Writer’s Handbook
  Useful resources compiled into a writing guide.
• The Writing Workshop
  Uni Learning
  A wonderful interactive site chock full of useful info for students. Highly recommended!
• UNE Academic Literacy Tutorial
  Designed for Bachelor of Education Students, this online tutorial has some great interactive exercises.

APA referencing

• APA Homepage
  From the American Psychological Association, this site offers free tutorials for mastering the 6th edition of APA; an APA style blog that tackles a variety of APA style referencing questions and APA referencing learning resources.
• Reference Cite
  Academic referencing resource from the University of Auckland

Learning and thinking styles

• VARK (visual oral read/write kinaesthetic)
  Do you know how you learn? This site is a great guide to learning styles.
• Thinking Critically
  From the University of Queensland.
• Critical Thinking
  From the University of Canberra.

Learning disability

• Disability Services - Office of Student Life
  From Ohio State University.
• National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities (NJCLD)
  The world’s leading website on learning disabilities and ADHD.
• Dyslexia Questionaire
  
• Students with Learning Disabilities
  A guide for staff and students from The Australian National University.

Grammar and English language learning

• Learning English
  A great site from the BBC World Service which includes sections on News and Business English, opportunities to develop listening skills and quizzes on grammar and vocabulary. The site includes fun features like an interactive online soap opera.
  
• EnglishClub.com
  Lessons, games, quizzes and more for ESL learners.
• Englishforums.com
  A forum site that helps users learn and explore the English language with topics such as poetry, stories, medical and business English, letter writing, grammar, vocabulary, essay composition and general chat. Learn English with online help from volunteer teachers all over the world.
• Englishmed.com
  A site dedicated to learning and improving medical English. Great for those students studying in health related programmes.
• English Grammar Online
  Includes an alphabetical index (adjectives, acronyms, etc.) and an English grammar clinic.
• HyperGrammar
  Produced by the Writing Centre at the University of Ottawa.
• Modern English Grammar
  An easy to navigate textbook maintained by the Department of English, College of DuPage.
• Guide to Grammar and Style
  From Rutgers University. An interesting and fun site with tips.
• English as a Second Language (ESL) Resources, Handouts and Exercises
  Purdue University's Online Writing Lab offers handouts and exercises on grammar, spelling, and punctuation for both ESL students and students whose first language is English.
• Grammar
  Monash University Language and Learning Online has guides on passive voice, verb tenses, articles and grammar for engineering.
• Punctuation Made Simple
  A site by Gary A. Olson, hosted by The College of Arts & Sciences at Illinois State University, which looks at using colons, semicolons, commas, dashes and apostrophes.
• The Apostrophe
  Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
• Using Commas
  Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
• Writing sentences
  From UniLearning.

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