Search different news programs such as Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Marketplace (business news). Transcripts are available for most shows two days after the broadcast date. On the menu tab "Programs," there are popular programs such as "Morning Edition" (news) or "All Things Considered" (popular interest stories).
These listening materials are designed to help you become better acquainted with a variety of typical student questions, common idioms used within them, and fast, reduced speech, a manner of speaking often used by American students. Most of the questions in these materials are generic questions; they could be heard in nearly any class or lab.
Welcome to the NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms, a resource with 7,767 terms related to cancer and medicine. Tips on Looking Up a Word or Phrase In the search box, type the word or phrase you are looking for and click the "Go" button.
Specialists in the field of genetics share their descriptions of terms, and many terms include images, animation and links to related terms. A quiz is also included.
A free online Talking English Pronunciation Dictionary - simply mouseover/tap your entry to hear it pronounced. American and British spellings, with alternative pronunciations. Sounds are fast, clear and completely natural, pre-recorded by native speakers. Answers the question "How do you say...?".
Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary - Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate. Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree.
This site provides not only definitions, pronunciations, synonyms/antonyms, and etymologies, but also, to name a few features, real-time example sentences from Twitter, words that are used in the same context (e.g., searching for "corny" will retrieve "overblown" and "country-western" (!), and Flikr photos tagged with the word-so you can actually see what people find corny.
While some attributes of academic writing remain constant across disciplines, others vary to meet standards and expectations of specific fields. The short guides below offer tips for writing within specific academic disciplines.