English Writing->English as a Foreign Language(EFL)
English Writing->Business Writing

The Professional Writing Style website designed by Dr. Russel Hirst at the University of Tennesse, Knoxville provides a writing lecture program, which helps users learn how to write effectively in professional fields. The program offers twelve lessons and practice activities by which users apply what they learn to real writing. Users will have at their fingertips a set of lessons in professional writing style that gives them explanations, examples, exercises, and answers for the following topics: Preferring Active Voice, Denominalizing (turning verbs masquerading as nouns back into verbs), Trimming Fat, Reducing Jargon, Unraveling Adjective-Noun Strings, Reducing Preposition Sprawl, Using Parallel Form, Being Emphatic and Coherent, Using Modifiers, Choosing the Right Words, Mastering Punctuation, Using Ethical and Inoffensive Language, Finding the Right Tone. These units of instruction are deliberately ordered in the sequence shown above; they build upon one another, and sometimes a lesson will refer to an earlier lesson. Users of this website are free to work through these tutorials selectively, and in any order they choose. Users can learn business communication though this website based on their own strengths and weaknesses. The website lessons will strengthen users stylistic power no matter what their discipline, but the lessons will be particularly helpful to the users if they are students, or professionals, in engineering, science, business, or technical communication. These tutorials do not attempt to take users through every possible aspect of style, but the lessons focus on core topics: the most important stylistic guidelines for professional writing. The instructor of the website said that, “I know that writing style is not everyone's favorite topic of study, so I've done my best to make these tutorials enjoyable and fast paced.” This web site is like a business book, and provides worksheets for practice, so users can learn professional writing through the web site.

URL : http://www.designsensory.com/pws/index.html

Keyword(s) : professional writing, effective writing, business

English Writing->Business Writing
English Writing->English as a Foreign Language(EFL)

This Bull's Eye Business Writing Tips web site offers 500 writing tips related to business writing. This website is a online-based learning site for users, so users can learn about writing more by given weekly updated advice on the web site. The website specifically mentions each model sentences it offers on the website, so users, especially non-native English speakers, can understand how to write business documents effectively. It offers general writing tips for formats and styles, and also show effective expressions and sentences in the business field. The list of sentences and expressions the website can give users a sense of how to write well. Moreover, writing tips are about general writing advice, so many users learn what good writing is about. Users can practice exercises through each task based on the given tips in the website.

URL : http://www.businesswritingtips.com/wbwt/tips-index.htm

Keyword(s) : business writing, writing practice, writing tips

English Writing->Business Writing
General Resources->Libraries

The Business Library web site produced by the University of Western Ontario offers information related to business. Even though this website is poorly designed, it gives useful information about business books, business online sources, and articles related to business writing. Despite its plain design of the website, the website is easy to navigate. This website continues to be updated, so users can access recent information related to business field. The website offers not only web resources related to business writing, but also books and articles about business and business writing. Users of the business library website will discover recent, updated information about books, academic articles, and also learn about recent trends of business writing. As its name indicates, this web site is the web library, which offer total, comprehensive business information.

URL : http://www.lib.uwo.ca/business/writingforbusiness.html

Keyword(s) : business, writing, professional

English Writing->Business Writing
English Writing->Technical Writing

The English for Professional Communication Web produced by the University of Hong Kong is designed for those who want to learn business communication. This web site has nine menus. Except for the introduction menu, the website consists of its menus according to functions of business communication: resumes, telephoning, e-mail, letters, interviewing, presentation, and reporting. The main page gives basic advice on the topic of the section and links to other pages in the section. Models give users examples of good practice in professional communication. This website offers interactive practice tasks to improve users the skills they need. It also provides other useful resources related to professional communication in English.

URL : http://ec.hku.hk/epc/

Keyword(s) : business, communication, professional,  letter, resume, inverview, presentation

English Writing->English as a Foreign Language(EFL)
English Writing->Business Writing
General Resources->Digital Repositories

The E.L. Easton homepage offers various resources related to the business fields. The web page is not well-designed, but it links to various webpages, so users can access a lot of information on the business field. The website also offers websites’ links to general English learning including writing, speaking, and reading. It provides information sources related to business writing, so users can learn basic business skills like writing memorandums, letters, and proposals and preparing presentations. The website also offers business knowledge in other languages including French, Chinese, Czech, and Spanish. The E.L. Easton website gives access to diverse web resources related to the English language itself, so users, especially users of English as a second language, are able to learn English as well as business English and skills.

URL : http://eleaston.com/biz/home.html

Keyword(s) : business, writing, ESL, communication