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Wilfrid Laurier University: Paragraph Writing [Pdf]
This site from the Wilfrid Laurier University provides a complete guide to paragraph writing. Contains many examples along with details and structures that are often left out when students write.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Introduction and Conclusion
Explanations and examples of writing introductions and conclusions.
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Cayuga Community College: Clauses, Phrases, and Commas [Pdf]
Learn about phrases, dependent and independent clauses, and how to use commas appropriately with clauses and phrases.
University of Richmond
University of Richmond: Transitional Words and Phrases
This site has a list of transitional words and phrases organized by their function in a sentence or paragraph. Because they are organized under such headings as "providing an example" and "showing conclusions," it is easy to find an...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Using Transitional Expressions [Pdf]
Practice tying your sentences and ideas together with this worksheet on transitional expressions. W.9-10.1c cohesion/clarity/reason
TES Global
Blendspace: Sentence Writing
This five-part learning module provides assorted references for sentence writing. This blendspace provides video writing tasks, resource sheets, and reference page links. Most of the spaces relate to writing compound and complex sentences.
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English Language: Smart Words: Transitional Words and Phrases
Lists of transitional words or phrases broken into categories based on their purposes. Can be downloaded in PDF format. There is also a short discussion of their important role in essay writing. W.11-12.2c Transition/Cohesion
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Argument and Persuasion
A slide show with fourteen slides with notes, tips, and examples on how to write a persuasive essay.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Qualifiers and Quantifiers
An explanation and examples of how qualifiers and quantifiers are used in sentences. Links to additional information are provided.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Linking Verbs
An explanation and examples of linking verbs and how they are used correctly in sentences.
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Using Transitions
This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center resource provides tips to ensure organizational flow content.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Indefinite and Definite Articles
This lesson focuses on articles; it defines definite and indefinite articles and provides examples of each. It explains the a vs. an rule and the exceptions to the rule.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Paper Writing: Transitions and Topic Sentences
This tutorial focuses on transitions including transitional devices, lists of common transition words and phrases, transitions between paragraphs with examples, and separate lists of transition words for descriptive, narrative, and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Transition Sentences
This lesson goes over how to compose sentences that transition between paragraphs. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Articles
A screencast lesson [5 mins, 52 secs] introducing articles and their proper usage and providing examples of articles functioning within sentences.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Clauses: The Essential Building Blocks
Online PowerPoint writing tutorial on the subject of clauses in sentences. L.9-10.1b Phrases/Clauses
Indiana University
Indiana University: Writing Services: Incorporating Evidence Into Your Essay
This handout explores how to effectively incorporate evidence to support your claims into your paper. It provides weak and strong examples to show effective ways to incorporate evidence clearly and cohesively. W.9-10.1c...
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Hyper Grammar: Building Clauses
This online grammar guide provides a definition of clauses and how they function in sentences.
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Instruct Uwo: Module 6 Sentence Structure and Style
This site discusses several characteristics of writing: coordination, subordination, parallelism, and sentence variety. Each section includes a brief discussion with examples. There are also quizzes and additional links for each section.
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Meredith Grammar Review: Clauses & Phrases
This online grammar guide provides instructions and examples on punctuating combinations of phrases and clauses. It also provides interactive exercises throughout the chapter.
Get It Write
Get It Write: Using the Articles "A" and "An"
Refresh your memory on when to use the article "a" and when to use "an." This tutorial clearly explains which to choose when and why. A brief quiz checks your understanding.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Elementary School Transition Words and Phrases
This article focuses on transition words and phrases including how to explain them to children and providing lists of transition words and phrases by types such as Time and Sequence, Cause and Effect, and Conclusion. It also provides a...
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Run on Sentences
Examples show how to avoid creating a run-on sentence in your writing.