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Writing academic English at the university level can be tough. To get you started, browse this selection of e-books and other online guide books on academic writing, vocabulary enhancement, and writing in the disciplines. If you've already started writing, consult the list of online reference books, including dictionaries, thesauri, and encyclopedias--available at the Library, and review the open online courses and other online tools to help you meet your language proficiency goals.
ELC Open Online Courses is a platform that prepared by the English Learning Centre (ELC) of PolyU. It hosts a series of MOOCs courses related to skills for communication in English, which aims at helping students in pursuing academic and professional excellence.
This platform provides online courses for English learners with practice activities, instructions and references. Currently, the Library subscribed to the following 4 modules:
The Online Self-Access Project (ICOSA) was an inter-institutional project for the language centres of five tertiary institutions in Hong Kong to create and share a range of English language self-access learning materials online via an online repository. The websites contain learning strategies for listening, reading, speaking, writing, and understanding English.
Learning Strategies include:
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Oxford Reference provides access to 100 key Oxford dictionaries and reference works in various areas including language, science, medicine, humanities, social sciences, business and management. |
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Credo is an online reference collection, and it features full-text content from hundreds of reference books covering a broad range of subjects. There are over 3 million entries, 200,000+ images (art, diagrams, maps and photos), and over 100,000 audio pronunciation files and sound clips. |
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Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that chart meanings and branch to related words. |