General Advice etc

English Club (advice about writing: spelling, puntuation, capital letters etc)

Webster (Very complete site to help intermediate and advanced students improve their academic writing skills)

Academic Writer (Hong Kong Virtual Language Centre's advanced level site with advice and examples to help you write academic papers)

Ruth Vilmi (a personal page from Finland - great advice on everything form CVs and essays to fiction and poetry...)

 

CVs, Job Application Letters etc

Susan Ireland (Very complete personal site - advice and lots of model CVs & letters)

English Club (advice on writing resumés - American site)

Alec (CV advice & Examples - UK site)

 

Chats, forums and Message Boards

English English.com (French chat site)

English Forums (a variety of forums for learners & teachers of English)

BBC (message board for learners of English)

Guardian Talk Online (a variety of topics, from football to politics - designed for native speakers not learners...)

Translation Board (post questions about translations in a variety of languages)

1-English (message board for learners of English)

Slang (Frames site - click on "English slang" - US site - practice your slang and swearwords here...)

 

Other interesting sites for writing skills

TYOS (Type Your Own Script), a new concept in online scientific writing assistance to non-native speakers of English. TYOS can be used by researchers, doctoral students, masters students and ESP teachers.

Paragraph Punch (interactive site with advice for organisation and presentation of ideas based on your input - it really works!)

Computer Assisted Sentence Production (answer a few questions, and a Java script program generates senetences...)

The Electric Postcard (Students can practice writing by sending virtual postcards to their friends and teachers. Lots of fun!)

Graffiti Wall (Dave's ESL café graffiti wall - submit your own graffiti and read the wall)

Purdue University OWL (On-Line Writing Lab - Purdue University, Indiana, USA. Activities based on grammar and vocabulary to help you with writing - also a one-to-one tutoring service for members...)