WRITING
A Collection of Resources to Improve your Writing Skills
Writing Corner Rubén Valero: Tips on how to write the most common texts, useful language and model questions and answers from writing Cambridge exams:
Writing corner FCE Rubén Valero (Level B2)
Writing corner CAE Rubén Valero (Level C1)
Writing Learn English Teens. British Council Models of the most common texts, tips, interactive exercises and downloadables. Levels A1-C1
Writing Learn English. British Council Models of the most common texts, tips, interactive exercises and downloadables. Levels A1-C1
Letters.org A myriad of models, templates, explanations and tips on how to write all kinds of letters imaginable (B2-C2 levels)
Prompts for Argumentative Writing (from the New York Times) A large collection topics, each of them including an extensive list of prompts for writing in the for of questions, originally aimed at native American teenager. They include the responses of these teenagers as post comments (Levels B2-C2)
Flo-Joe Writing. Preparatory language exercises for writing, proofreading exercises, videos on how to approach the writing of each kind of text and authentic answers to writing tasks in Cambridge exams. (Levels B2-C2)
Dear Mariella Letters to an agony aunt and its answers (B2-C2 levels)
Quotes about writing
Civilization: the stage of cultural development at which writing and the keeping of written records is attained (definition from the Merriam Webster dictionary)
“A word after a word after a word is power.”― Margaret Atwood
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”― Albert Camus
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.”[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”― Stephen King
“I hate writing, I love having written.”― Dorothy Parker
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”― Anne Frank
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
--Franz Kafka