Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Quotation Marks in Titles
Rules and examples for using quotation marks correctly when writing titles of short works.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Quotations Within a Quotation
Rules and examples for using quotation marks within a quotation.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Quotation Marks Setting Off Specific Words or Terms
Rules and examples for using quotation marks to set off specific words within a sentence.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Cause and Effect Papers: Organization
A screencast lesson [5 mins, 53 secs] explaining how create an outline to plan the organization of a cause and effect essay. Following the lesson, a printable document provides an outline format for students to follow when writing their...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Incorporating Quotes in Your Writing
Notes, a fourteen-slide presentation, and two videos teaching students how to incorporate and punctuate quotes into various sections of an essay and how to embed quotes within a paragraph.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Supporting Details: Facts and Statistics
This lesson discusses how statistics can be used as supporting details. This tutorial shares a short audio lesson [05:16] and supplemental notes with the lesson's content.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Supporting Details
This tutorial focuses on supporting details using a video of a paragraph from a book showing the topic sentence and two strong, reliable, supporting details. This is followed by a slideshow that stresses the need for variety in the types...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Apa Format: Long Quotes
A three page printable document of notes followed by a screencast lesson [4 mins, 55 secs] explaining how to format long quotations using the APA style.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Apa Format: Short Quotes
A five-page printable document followed by a screencast lesson [6 mins, 31 secs] explaining how to format short quotations using APA formatting.
Education Development Center
Education Development Center: Tv411: Reading Structure of a News Story
Interactive lesson explains the content and organization of newspaper articles. Includes self-scoring exercises for practicing identifying the five W's (who, what, when, where, and why) in a series of brief news articles and a...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Supporting Details Explained
This slideshow focuses on supporting details; it discusses their purpose, the audience, and the point to be made. It lists the five most common types of supporting details: facts, statistics, opinions, examples, and personal observations...
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Supporting Points and Proof
An explanation of supporting details and tips on writing them.
University of Sydney (Australia)
The Write Site: Overview: Using Quoting & Paraphrasing
This learning module explains the components of academic writing. The module includes the following topics: original material, paraphrased content, summarized information, and direct quotations.
The Washington Post
Washingtonpost: Rewriting the Rules
Washington Post article dealing with ethics and guidelines of journalists reporting hard news. Provides material for debate and discussion. Interesting article.
Other
How to Compile a Bibliography
This site provides basic guidelines and examples for how to compile a bibliography. Grade levels listed 1st through 6th.
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin Madison: Writing Center: Using Literary Quotations
Explains the style rules regarding using literary quotations in your essay. Covers punctuation, documentation, and the purpose of quoting. The information can be downloaded in PDF format.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: English Mentor: How to Write a Career Research Paper
This structural design will guide students in writing a career research paper from start to finish. They will gather information; cite sources MLA style; develop a thesis statement, outline, and paragraphs; and create a research paper...
Other
Public Relations Writing: How I Grade a Press Release.
Specialized but useful rubric geared towards examining journalistic style writing. Provides evaluation guidelines that one teacher uses, with a rubric to evaluate.
Other
Oakland Writes: Student Exemplars: Sixth Grade: Expository Essay [Pdf]
An expository essay written by a sixth-grader with notes calling attention to important writing concepts evident in the essay including a well-written title, opening sentence, thesis, main ideas, supporting details, and more.
Other
Snn Newsroom: Reporter's Toolbox: Writing Editorials and Columns
Advice and examples of editorial and feature column writing, along with an explanation of the role that editorial writers and columnists fill. Explains how to structure this type of writing in order to present clear arguments.
Other
Writing News Stories 3 Basic Styles & Tips for Writing
An overview of the three basic styles for writing news stories and some tips to follow for writing good news stories.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Paraphrase Craze: A Lesson in Expository Writing
This tutorial focuses on how to paraphrase using an excerpt from Poe's short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart." It defines paraphrase and plagiarism, presents examples, and explains what is incorrect about them. It is interactive asking for...
English Club
English Club: Type
EnglishClub provides information about different forms of "type" on this resource. Functions of "bold" and "italics" are discussed.
Other
Turning Time Wasters Into Articles
This "how-to" is devoted to turning casual ideas and observations into publishable articles and columns. Gives practical advice for all ages.