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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Online Writing Lab

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A great resource for middle-school, high-school, and college writers, with worksheets, articles, model papers, and presentations that will help you with research, grammar, style, job-search and professional writing, and more. Includes...
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University of North Carolina

Writing Center: Handouts and Links

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Resources for the writer of academic papers, with specific guidance about the mechanics of writing, citations, and effective expression. Lots of detail and lots of examples.
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Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Guide to Grammar and Style by Jack Lynch

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Reference guide to key grammatical terms and issues. Also gives additional reading suggestions and lists online resources.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write Literary Text Using Strategies to Enhance Style & Tone

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
A learning module that teaches students about using literary devices to enhance style and tone in four lessons: Introduction, Style in Literature, Tone, and Your Turn.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Style Chart [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief organizer in which students can analyze a given selection's writing style. Includes sections on diction, figures of speech, images, and sentence structure.
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Handout
University of Richmond

University of Richmond: Putting Voice Into a Paper

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides tips and activities to help students develop voice in their writing. The tips are brief and direct and, if followed, should help a writer improve both voice and confidence.
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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing Workshop: Oral History

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Great online lesson that takes students through the entire writing process- from prompt to publishing. Online or printable versions of each step are available. The prompt asks students to interview people and write about their oral...
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Website
ACT360 Media

Act Den: Writing Den

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Need some extra help in spelling, grammar, and writing? Search no further. The writing den gives great tips for sentence structure and even on writing essays. A lot of great information for language arts students and teachers.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: To Imitate Two Nature Writers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson each writer will compose and revise a "showing" description inpsired by an object or a place in nature. Long before drafting, students will discuss and compare the writing styles and techniques of published authors who...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Interjected Emotions!: Voicing a Story

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
By incorporating properly used conventions of grammar, students will begin writing a narrative based on an interjection and a name.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: I Wanna: Writing a Persuasive Letter

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students will experiment with word choice as it relates to persuasion.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Giving Voice to Opposites

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will develop a narrative in opposing voices.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Imitating a Newspaper's Voice With a Funny and Original Idea

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this creative instructional activity, students will create a voice for a tabloid feature within a fairy-tale world.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Animals Not to [Verb] With

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will create 4 original poems within a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Dialogue Adventures

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will learn how to write dialogue in a particular voice.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Inventing Stories for Your Favorite Clothes

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan students will write descriptors for a clothes catalogue.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: What's Your Fifth Element?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will write persuasively in regards to a 21st century object.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Informalities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A list of style techniques (with examples) used to create an informal tone in a written piece.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Academic Writing: Specific Requirements

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on academic writing requriements and includes links to Argumentative (Persuasive) Writing, Essay Writing, and How to Write a Research Paper.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Basic Mechanics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on the basic mechanics of writing including links to Genre, Thinking, Methods of Reasoning, Evidence, and Citation.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Strunk's the Elements of Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Bartleby.com's online version of William Strunk, Jr.'s classic reference book, "The Elements of Style."
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Website
Other

Write Away: Finding Your Voice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article, written by a college creative writing instructor, gives advice about developing a writer's voice. There are six sections with specific suggestions for improving your writing. While the source of this page is a site about...
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Article
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: How to Write Better Essays: 5 Concepts You Must Master

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This blog article discusses essay writing including thesis development, strong form, style, conventions, and support and references.
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Colorado State University

Colorado State Writing Center: Business Letters: Format

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource gives guidelines to how to construct the proper business letter format. Complete with detailed instructions and examples.