1. Resources for English Writing English Writing

2. Types of Resources Dictionaries Writing websites Writing Centers on the internet

3. The dictionaries you need for writing

4. Types of Dictionaries Conventional Dictionaries Dictionaries of Synonyms and Antonyms (Thesaurus) Dictionaries of Collocation Dictionaries on CD-ROMs

5. Conventional Dictionaries

6. Dictionaries of Synonyms and Antonyms Roget ’ s Thesaurus

7. Dictionaries of Collocation 英語搭配大辭典 (A Dictionary of English Collocations) 中央圖 書出版社

8. Collocation Example: research V + N Do/carry out/conduct/pursue research *make research Adj. + N Academic/comprehensive/independent/ detailed/intensive/considerable research N + Prep. A research for facts (a purpose) Research in linguistics (an academic subject) Research on diseases of the blood (a certain topic)

9. Dictionaries on CD-ROMs Advantages Fast and convenient More detailed explanation than electronic dictionaries Multi-functional Grammar Usage Thesaurus Examples Easy to compile your own vocabulary reference list

10. ENCYCLOPEDIA

11. WRITING WEBSITES

12. Dictionaries on the Internet Cambridge Dictionaries Online http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ Encarta World English Dictionary http://dictionary.msn.com/ Collins Concordance and Collocations Sampler http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/form.html/ Longman Web Dictionary http://www.longman-elt.com/dictionaries/ webdictionary.html/ Cambridge Dictionaries Online http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ Encarta World English Dictionary http://dictionary.msn.com/ Collins Concordance and Collocations Sampler http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/form.html/ Longman Web Dictionary http://www.longman-elt.com/dictionaries/ webdictionary.html/

13. WRITING CENTERS ON THE INTERNET

14. Writing Centers UNC-Chapel Hill http://www.uncc.edu/writing/ wrcindex.html UNC-Charlotte http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/ handouts/ Purdue University http://owl.English.purdue.edu/lab/owl/ index.html