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Grammarly Handbook: Informalities
A list of style techniques (with examples) used to create an informal tone in a written piece.
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Grammarly Handbook: Wordiness
This page focuses on reducing wordiness in writing by using more concise language, and avoiding extra-long words and sentences.
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Western Grammar: Prepositions
This resource offers a brief definition and examples for the use of prepositions. Hyperlinks to other parts of speech.
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Grammarly Handbook: Academic Writing: Specific Requirements
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 Handbook: Shifts in Writing
Five areas to edit for shifts in writing: Consistent Point of View, Consistent Verb Tenses, Verbs Consistent in Mood and Voice, Shifts from Indirect to Direct Questions/Quotations, and Shifts from British to American English. Each area...
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Grammarly Handbook: Text Level Measurements of Adequate Writing
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides information about how to check for text-level measurements of adequate writing grammar rules in an essay. This resource will explain the importance of the following: readability, lexical density,...
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Grammarly Handbook: Basic Mechanics
This page focuses on the basic mechanics of writing including links to Genre, Thinking, Methods of Reasoning, Evidence, and Citation.
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Grammarly Handbook: Think About Writing Ideas
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides strategies for selecting a writing topic.
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Grammarly Handbook: Genre
This page focuses on genre which cautions students to be sure there are writing the type of writing that was assigned. They need to know the different genres and what is expected of them.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Strunk's the Elements of Style
Bartleby.com's online version of William Strunk, Jr.'s classic reference book, "The Elements of Style."
Brown University
Brown University: Critical Writing and Thinking
Resource explains exactly what critial writing and thinking are, questions to help you think critically, paper writing tips, troubleshooting, and more.
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Grammarly Handbook: Untangle Grammatical Structures
This page explains the need to revise sentences with unclear or mixed constructions and provides examples.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Prepositions Exercise 1
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on using the correct Prepositions for each sentence. It is suitable for ESL as well as regular English classes.
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Georgia Perimeter College: Learning and Tutoring Center: Communications Handouts
This index provides links to educational resources on various English topics. Some topics included are related to punctuation, parts of speech, usage, different types of writing, and analytical questions for various genres of literature.
Harold D. Underdown
How to Find Words That Jump Off the Page
An excellent resource for a writer struggling to come up with the exact words for which they are looking. Includes very helpful advice and information. Aimed at writers of children's literature, but can also apply to other genres.
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Grammarly Blog: Anymore vs. Any More
This page explains the use of "anymore" in informal writing, but in formal writing and anywhere else, "any more" is preferable. Examples are provided.
TES Global
Tes: Assessing Pupil Progress in English: Writing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PowerPoint provides exemplar pieces to guide students to understand how to revise a standardized, on-demand writing assessment piece.
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Grammarly Blog: Interjections
An explanation of the use of interjections and links to specific interjection usage rules.
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Grammarly Blog: Prepositions
An explanation of the use of prepositions and links to specific preposition usage rules.
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Grammarly Blog: Prepositions of Time and Place
An explanation with examples of prepositions that describe time and place.
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Grammarly Blog: Nouns and Prepositions
An explanation with examples of how nouns and prepositions can work together in a sentence.
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Grammarly Blog: Common Verb and Preposition Combinations
This Grammarly Handbook resource provide numerous examples of common combinations of verbs and prepositions.
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Grammarly Blog: Each and Every
This page explains the proper use of the singular words "each" and "every" and provides examples.
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Grammarly Blog: Consistent Point of View
This Grammarly Handbook resource reminds students how to write with a consistent point of view. Examples are provided to demonstrate how to fix a sentence that contains an inconsistent point of view.