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Excellent exercises to help you improve your writing: generating ideas, determining your audience, choosing your writing style, organizing essays, writing the intro and conclusion and many others.

An older, yet very useful site that will help you to improve your writing on word & sentence level, paragraph level and also essay & research paper level.

Excellent tool to help you work on writing a rough draft organizing your ideas before actually starting to write!

Story tools has a collection of tools to analyze your writing. For example, you can paste your essay here and check "readability" (it analyzes your sentences (long/short), use of passives, articles, verbs, etc) or clichés, word count, etc. It also works well to help you create your own stories (use the "story idea generator" button). Why don't you try using some of these tools before handing in your writing to your teacher? :)

A quick and useful crash course in English punctuation. 

Various articles that aim to teach students how to write better.