How to do

• Whenever you have doubt, use dictionaries.
• Use more than one type of dictionaries
• Prioritize English-English dictionaries and academic dictionaries
• Do no rely on Chinese translation
• Read definitions, phrases, collocations, and examples sentences carefully.

Recommended dictionaries

• Longman dictionary:
  https://www.ldoceonline.com/
• Merriam-Webster dictionary:
  https://www.merriam-webster.com/
• Oxford dictionaries:
  https://www.oxforddictionaries.com/
• Dictionary.com, thesaurus.com
• For idioms, slangs, and cutting-edge, up-to-date usages, use urbandictionary.com

Corpus

• COCA(Corpus of contemporary American English)
• Word and phrase:
  https://www.wordandphrase.info/
• Michigan corpus of academic spoken English
• BAWE: British Academic Written English
• Or create your own corpus using Antcom

Referencing software

• Endnote:
  https://endnote.com/
• Mendeley:
  https://www.mendeley.com/interaction_required=true