There is a list of resources for you to use when you are
writing and revising. These resources can help you write more accurately,
fluently
and effectively.
- First, highlight a phrase in your document that you would like to check,
and
- then click the RESOURCES button. This will open the list of resources
as follows
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Google News - This site indexes edited newspaper
articles, so you can be reasonably sure that an expression you find
there is accurate.
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Google Search - Google searches the Web and show
you the example contexts in websites. Since these web sites are not
edited, this search may display non-standard (inaccurate) English.
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WordNeighbors - WordNeighbors displays the words
that are most frequently used before or after your target word in different
types of text that you can select.
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JustTheWord - JustTheWord displays words (organized
by part-of-speech and meaning) that are most frequently used with your
target word, based on 500,000,000 words of British English.
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Translate It! - You can use Babel Fish Translation
to translate a text from English to Traditional Chinese.
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Cambridge Dictionary - You can look up the meanings
of words, idioms, and phrasal verbs as you are writing.
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Answers.com - You can look up the definitions and
names of people, places, important events etc.
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Wikipedia Encyclopedia - You can look up the names
of people, places, important events etc.
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Google Technical Terms - You can look up technical
terms.
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Google Scholar - You search for journal articles,
abstracts.
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Reverse Dictionary - Reverse dictionary lets you
describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related
to that concept
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English Grammar Guide - You can find information
about most of the common errors made by Chinese speakers when writing
in English.
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