e4e will help you with most of the
problems and questions covered by the word "English". The comment "Bad
English" often really means that students have not thought carefully, or have
misunderstood instructions, or have used informal English when formal would have been
better. e4e tries to spell out all the
aspects of English at different levels which can help you to express effectively what you
want to write or say.
Beginning from four basic categories - writing, reading, general topics and
advanced topics - e4e allows
you to explore each one fully, and to explore the interactions between
each of them. e4e assumes
that the more you understand about English the more confident in your
ability you will become.
'Writing' includes the processes, with examples, which might be followed to
write different kinds of work in different contexts. It allows you to move from grammar
problems and practice at one end of the scale to discussions of planning, cognitive
problems and language theories at the other. At any point you can cross to new areas
of interest as you wish to explore them, and find your way quickly back to where you were.
'Reading' investigates how to read and what to read, but it also interacts with
writing and with general skills and advanced topics, since each informs the other.
'General skills' provides a help line for practices which you often learn only
through experience - like how to use the library, or how to hide your nervousness when you
speak in public.
'Advanced topics' will allow you to explore to the full the processes of
literature and language which have made English the way it is: where English came
from, where it is going to..., and some of what has happened along the way.
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It is difficult to get lost in e4e.
If as a new user you have forgotten the name of the screen you have come from, or you
can't find it in the navigation bar, go to the Home
page and start afresh, or look for the topic in the Index.
Try to avoid getting lost in the first place by teaching yourself to be aware of
where you are. Remember the heading of the screen you're using, so that you can look for
it in the navigation bar.
If you want to see the broader picture of e4e,
the organogram that comes with the CD will show you the basic ground plan.
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