Academic Writing

Online Resources

BBC Learning English , British Council Learn English , Learn English Today

Phonetic transcription of English words
Oxford Learner's Dictionary , Cambridge Dictionary: Grammar
Thesaurus , Merriam-Webster Dictionary
The Phrase Finder , Online Etymology Dictionary
Green's Dictionary of Slang
William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style (1918, online version 1999)

Academic Phrasebank (Univ. Manchester), UEfAP (Using English for Academic Purposes), Academic Writing in English (Finnish Virtual University)
Word and Phrase.info , Academic Vocabulary
Corpus Concordance English (Compleat Lexical Tutor), British National Corpus, Corpus of Contemporary American English , British Academic English Corpus
Explorations of Style (blog), The Impact Blog (LSE)

The Electric Typewriter
The Guardian: Language
The Fleet Sheet