There are various online courses that are offered to assist with scientific writing. Try out these sites:-

http://www.assaf.co.za/programmes/online-scientific-writing/

https://www.coursera.org/

Hi Chintan Vaghela

Resources, Tools, And Apps To Improve Writing Skills

Please visit the site given below:

http://www.teachthought.com/apps-2/41-resources-tools-and-apps-to-improve-writing-skills/

Resources, Tools, And Apps To Improve Reading Skills

Please visit the site given below:

http://lifehacker.com/5452100/top-10-tools-for-better-reading-online-and-off

Dear  Chintan, I enclose links to a few posts that provide information about tools that can be used at various educational levels.

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/10-resources-upgrade-your-grammar-and-writing-skills.html

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/10-great-writing-apps-classroom.shtml

http://instructionaltechtalk.com/7-edtech-instruments-develop-students-writing-skills/

Dear Chintan,

For what it is worth, you may want to check out the website called "Education Technology and Mobile Learning".  I subscribe to this website's feeds via email, and I get updates about education (including web-based tools to improve reading and writing skills). You usually get one every other day or less. But, it's loaded with really cool tips, apps, and occasionally there are TED Talks for inspiration.

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/p/site-map.html

I learned a lot with your answers. Interesting web resources. It would be important to explore calmly and depth to find the conceptual framework about reading and writing which are nourished. And to point out what aspect of these two complex cognitive processes stimulates each website. I can not imagine reading and writing as a single process; but as two interdenpendientes processes. Greetings !!

Given the tech-biased starting point of the asker, I am rather certain that my answer will be ignored--especially since the printed text book, and perhaps all books--are going the way of the carrier pidgeon with the full on assault of e-readers, apps--screen reading.

But these facts remain: Screen-based reading/writing, with the WWW an ever present temptation for distraction and "multi-tasking"--do not aid in close, focused reading, or clear coherent writing.

I don't permit laptops or cell phones in class. I don't use power points. I assign physical books with required hand written annotations to drive in class Q&A and set up more focused writing tasks related to the readings.  I have alot of data--only now emerging after a decade of "all digital is good"--that shows that we abandon Gutenberg in favor of Zuckerberg at our educational peril.

Anyway: here's a teaser finding.

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Benefits-of-No-Tech-Note/228089/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Best,

          T Dansdill 

 disciplinary areas of the answers, my answer to this question

Timothy, you're a great teacher by passion demonstrated in the defense of non-digital book. I wonder: What variations introduced digital and resources in reading? And writing? You're referring to the order, sequence, to sustain the focus on a subject ... the odds linearity analog to digital hypertext book. New challenges !!!

Hi Silvana,

                   All thinking is Analogical!  We hurt our children and our advancing students when we just hand them digital apps.  Teachers at all levels must remember the power of anlaogy and the stages of critical, developmental thinking.  Here's an introduction:

http://www.cog.brown.edu/courses/63/analogical_reasoning.html

Best,

TD