Emory English Language Learning Resources

Contains a variety of handouts, some with videos, that support paper writing, citation, and writing for specific fields

Handouts on Writing from the UNC Writing Center

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.

This website, created by Michigan State University, has audio files of technical terms in different fields of study.

Website with links that pronounce the elements in the periodic table.

A overview of Chemistry that provides many useful phrases and definitions

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.

Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced online dictionary of slang words and phrases. Not formal use with caution

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...?".

This dictionary will allow you to look up phrasal verbs and idioms

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.

A variety of short videos addressing process, email writing, brainstorming, style etc..

The Office of International Student Life (OISL) is designed to help connect international students to meaningful campus life opportunities, provide intentional events and programs to highlight the diversity of nationalities and cultures at Emory, and provide opportunities for all Emory students to connect in a meaningful way. OISL is under the Division of Campus Life.