Writing

You should also consider pages under Vocabulary and Grammar.

Websites that have a range of writing activities and guides
http://www2.elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/writing.htm

Writing practice without a teacher
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/writing

Cohesion and Coherence
Good academic writing should flow and link messages so that, for example, the connection between two ideas is clear and explicit. In creative writing it may be fine for to leave the reader guess how ideas are connected.

In this link you can find a useful slideshow explaining how paragraphing and coherence work together, covering quality aspects such as topic sentences.

Cohesive devices
http://www2.elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/icosa/vocabulary/transitions-contrasting/cohesive-devices/index.html

What is academic writing?
Academic writing can be distinguished from literature or writing for people's pleasure/entertainment, from letters/emails, and even from newspapers in one important category: reliability. Academic must build on well-respected sources of information by citing those sources to make it more trustworthy in the points it is making.

A good overview of reliability and 9 other categories of academic quality can be found here http://www.uefap.net/writing/writing-features/writing-features-introduction

Academic Writing is usually distinguished from General English writing because many of the vocabulary and grammar choices are different from those you would use when communicating in less formal situations. You can find an explanation of some of the features here https://www.monash.edu/rlo/research-writing-assignments/writing/features-of-academic-writing

Academic Writing Processes
https://latrobe.libguides.com/writing/writing-at-university

Using sources in your writing
An essential features of academic writing is that it relies on credible sources for context, support, evidence etc. Academic writers need to: 1. Find sources to read 2. locate information that is relevant and important for their own writing 3. integrate the information appropriately 4. cite the source.

integrating information
This involves quotation and paraphrasing. Below are some websites that help you in these skills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=99&v=7syE6AMRA7k&feature=emb_logo

Essays
For a very basic and general idea of an essay, start here http://www.uefap.net/writing/writing-introduction/writing-introduction-essays