Mackintosh Architecture: Context, Making and Meaning

The project provides a richly-illustrated Catalogue of all known architectural projects by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, including over 1200 drawings by Mackintosh and the practice, analytical and contextual essays, a timeline and glossary. Find out more

James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was a major figure in 19th century printmaking and created 490 etchings. Over 9500 impressions of these prints have been located and investigated during the project, which completes a series of catalogues raisonnés of Whistler's oeuvre. Find out more

Curious Travellers

The project explores Romantic-period accounts of journeys into Wales and Scotland with a focus on the writings of the Flintshire naturalist and antiquarian Thomas Pennant (1726-1798), whose published Tours of both countries did so much to awaken public interest in the ‘peripheries’ of Britain. Find out more

SCOTS: Scottish Corpus Of Texts and Speech

The Scottish Corpora project has created large electronic corpora of written and spoken texts for the languages of Scotland, featuring nearly 4.6 million words of text, with audio recordings to accompany many of the spoken texts. Find out more

Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus

The Metaphor Map of English shows the metaphorical links which have been identified between different areas of meaning. These links can be from the Anglo-Saxon period right up to the present day so the map covers 1300 years of the English language. Find out more

The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler: A Catalogue Raisonné

The online catalogue includes some 550 oil paintings and over 1700 works on paper dating from ca 1850 to 1903. The evolution of each painting from sketch to final oil is described and illustrated. Find out more

Seeing speech

The resource provides ultrasound tongue imaging (UTI) and lip video of speech, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) video of speech, and 2D midsagittal head animations based on MRI and UTI data. Find out more

The Historical Thesaurus of English

The University of Glasgow’s Historical Thesaurus of English is a unique resource charting the development of meaning in the huge and varied vocabulary of English. It consists of almost every recorded word in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, all arranged into detailed hierarchies of meaning. Find out more

The Berwickshire Place-Name Resource

The resource includes historical research for all Berwickshire place-names on the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger map, including more than 1,600 place-names and 7,000 historical forms presented via a series of interactive maps. Find out more

Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

A publicly accessible, online scholarly edition of one of the most important archives of eighteenth-century medical "consultation letters", containing more than 20,000 digitised pages. Find out more

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ARIES: Assisted Revision in English Style

ARIES is designed to assist you in your academic writing, through strengthening your grammar and developing your academic style.

A spelling quiz

ARIES (Assisted Revision In English Style) is designed to assist you in your academic writing, through strengthening your grammar and developing your academic style. It consists of a series of units, which build up from improving your sentence structure and punctuation, to structuring your essays, producing effective and clear arguments, and properly referencing other material in your own work. Each unit is composed of a mixture of explanation and interactive exercises, allowing you to test, as well as improve, your knowledge.

ARIES can help you with:

Sentences - sentence structure and avoiding grammatical mistakes.
Clarity - maintaining clarity in your writing, through structural and stylistic choices.
Essays - structuring your essays and strengthening your arguments.
Referencing and plagiarism - referencing other authors in your work and avoiding plagiarism.

ARIES is available as a website and an app for iOS and Android devices. The first version of ARIES was developed in the 1990s at the University of Glasgow by Christian Kay and Jean Anderson, Resource Development Officer, with programming by Ann Gow and David Scotson. The current version has been prepared with University of Glasgow LTDF funding by Marc Alexander, Ewan Hannaford, Karoliina Ollikainen, and Andrew Struan, with programming by Brian Aitken.

Project website: https://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/STELLA/apps/web/aries/

Main contact: Marc Alexander

Developer: Brian Aitken

Start year: 2000

End year: 2018

Funded by: Higher Education Academy English Subject Centre

Subject area: English Language & Linguistics

Keywords: App Learning and Teaching

Record last updated 2020-01-13