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Writing Exercises For Students and Teachers
Here we have some helpful writing exercises, tools, books, and dictionaries.
For learners it will help you to practice and improve your writing to avoid mistakes in writing.
For teachers it will help you to have an idea by giving your students some beneficial activities.
Top Books that Improve Your Professional Writing Skills:
A collection of recommended books that includes some of favorite classics books that will help you to write all types of writing. If you want to become a good writer then you need to be a good reader as well. So, here we have some beneficial books that will help you to become a better writer.
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1. The Elements of Style
Authors: William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
A classic book on grammar, style, and punctuation. If you feel like you need to improve any of those three aspects of your writing, then this book is a great start.
2. On Writing Well
Author: William Zinsser
Another classic for writers who want to learn what it means to be a professional writer, how to find one’s style, and how to write with it.
3. Writing Tools
Author: Roy Peter Clark
A summary of writing tools that any writer needs to master.
4. 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing
Author: Gary Provost
This book gives some effective techniques for writers. It will help you find the writing style that suits you the best.
5. Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content
Author: Ann Handley
The writer writes everything from how to write to grammar and usage to best practices. It will help you also uncover what to write.
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6. Longman Academic Writing Series
Author: Alan Meyers
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Here are the most significant dictionaries that assist you to enhance students writing skills:
1- Oxford dictionary
https://www.lexico.com/
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/
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2- Longman dictionary
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/
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3- Merriam Webster dictionary
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dictionary
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4- Almaany dictionary
https://www.almaany.com/
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5- Cambridge dictionary
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/
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