Steven Pinker on Writing

Steven Pinker speaking during the THE SCIENCE OF LEARNING panel at HILT Symposium on Feb. 2, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaa0mACCQ1E

UTeach Files

Vocabulary Files for UTeach Su2013https://utexas.box.com/s/05a7mz4w4aoz0ifcvgk9

Free online writing resource

http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e

Link to NY Times Article on Kids and Pressure

Why Can Some Kids Handle Pressure While Others Fall Apart?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/magazine/why-can-some-kids-handle-pressure-while-others-fall-apart.html?_r=0&pagewanted=print

Useful Vocabulary Links

ONLINE VOCABULARY STUDY

WORDCOUNT™ (Cool graphic representation of 86,800 words by frequency rank)

http://www.wordcount.org/main.php

High frequency word lists with definitions & corpus-based collocations

http://www2.elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/generalServiceList.htm

http://www2.elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/vocabula.htm

English vocabulary exercises.com

http://www.englishvocabularyexercises.com/

http://www.englishvocabularyexercises.com/AWL/index.htm (AWL words only)

Center for Independent Language Learning

http://www2.elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/Default4.htm

http://www2.elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/eap/2004/u6/pg137ex3precisewords.htm

Flashcard sites

http://quizlet.com/1484482/gsl1-flash-cards/

http://www.studyblue.com/online-flashcards/

http://www.flashcardexchange.com/

http://www.englishpage.com/irregularverbs/irregular_verb_flashcards.html

Vocabulary Games

http://www.vocabulary.co.il/english-language-games/

 “Compleat” Lexical Tutor v.6.2 (the site where the frequency tests were)

http://www.lextutor.ca/

Vocabulary list learning site

http://www.lextutor.ca/list_learn/

Cloze quiz for 2000 level (word bank given)

http://conc.lextutor.ca/list_learn/eng/quiz/2000c1.htm

Using English for Academic Purposes (AEfAP)

http://www.uefap.com/index.htm

CORPUS SITES

Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)

http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/

Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/c/corpus/corpus?page=home;c=micase;cc=micase

Grade Level Vocabulary Tests in Preparation for SAT (native speaker site /HARD)

http://www3.vocabtest.com/

GRE Vocabulary Audio /HARD)

http://freevocabulary.com/

Wiktionary

http://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page

Updated Sentence-Combining PPTs

SENTENCE COMBINING EXERCISES (updated 7/15/12 3:25 PM)


Click here for all of the Sentence-Combining Exercises below
SC 1AB (and, and then, and suddenly and immediately; either-or)  
SC 1CDE-(neither-nor) & Compound Sentences (and, or, nor, but, yet) 
SC 1F-Compnd-Complex and Adj. Adv Clauses 
SC 2A Noun clauses 
SC 2B Adjective clauses  
SC 2C Subordinators 
SC 2E Complex, adj clauses, adv. clauses 
SC 2F Complex + multiple clauses 

Sentence Combining PPTs for tomorrow reloaded

Make sure you go through these from beginning to end. There may be a prize hidden. (The previous links may not work, so use these.)


SC 2A Noun Clauses.ppt  http://cl.ly/DTNH


SC 2B Adjective Clauses.ppt  http://cl.ly/DSow

SC 2C Subordinators.pptx http://cl.ly/DTBm

SC 1F-Compnd-Complex and Adj. Adv Clauses.pptx http://cl.ly/DT7s

SC 1AB (and +, either-or).pptx http://cl.ly/DJSR