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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: "How to Write a Literary Analysis Essay" [Pdf]

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
This is a nine-page PDF entitled "How to Write a Literary Analysis Essay" which explains in detail the parts of a literary analysis and how to write them.
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Grammar Check

Grammar Check: Learn How to Write an Essay Like the Pros (Infographic)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An infographic is provided to help students with writing essays. Explicit information about essay writing steps are included. Essay mistakes relative to the content and style are articulated, along with features specific to essays.
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Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Body Paragraphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides information related to writing body paragraphs for argumentative essays.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Effective Introduction, Conclusion, and Sentence Variety

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on writing effective introductions and conclusions and tying them together. It also discusses varying sentence structures. Practice exercises are...
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Website
British Council

British Council: Essays: Structure 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website provides tips to writing which develops an argument. When writing an essay, show that the writer can construct a coherent argument and employ critical thinking skills, as well as support an argument with evidence.
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Unit Plan
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Writing Explanation Part 2: Well Written Explanation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this module, students will write an explanation based on the claims, evidence and reasoning about climate change that they identified in Writing Explanation Part 1: Claims, Evidence, Reasoning.
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Activity
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: High School Cause and Effect Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This four-page essay provides an example of an Cause and Effect essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
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Activity
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Cause and Effect Essay Example 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This five-page essay provides a written example of a cause and effect essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
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Activity
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Extended Definition Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This five-page essay provides an example of writing an extended definition to something (the meaning of work in this case). Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips,...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: High School Persuasive Essay Example 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This seven-page essay provides an example of a persuasive essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
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Activity
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: High School Persuasive Essay Example 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This five-page essay provides an example of a persuasive essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
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Joe Landsberger

Study Guides & Strategies: Writing Basics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site by University of St. Thomas focuses on the basics for writing any paragraph. It is developed in outline fashion and is very easy to follow. This site provides a basic overview of the process of writing without going into a...
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Paragraph Development

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the Capital Community College helps with paragraph development and topic sentences.
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Activity
BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Discursive (Analytical) Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Short tutorial about discursive, or analytical, writing from a Scottish Standard Grade examination preparation site. Contains seven pages of information about the following: organising, essay examples, finding information, planning,...
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Five Paragraph Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explains what each paragraph of the five-paragraph essay, should do. Then gives a side-by-side analysis of a sample essay, pointing out aspects of the introduction and thesis statement, the paragraph-by-paragraph development, and the...
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Intro Paragraph

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
How to write an introduction paragraph, including hook, background information, and thesis statement.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Teaching Students to Compose a Power Paragraph [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This PDF lesson, POWER PARAGRAPH, focuses on analysis and will also help students to understand structure in a paragraph. The "power" concept teaches the students to organize their sentences according to different levels of importance....
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Teaching Students to Compose a Power Essay [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The Power Essay, like the power paragraph, focuses on helping students understand the structure of a piece of expository writing. The "power" concept teaches students to organize their ideas according to levels of specificity and to...
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Activity
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Writing Persuasive Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Persuasive writing is the topic of this article. Students will learn the parts of the persuasive essay and how to write an effective persuasive essay.
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University of Sydney (Australia)

The Write Site: Summary: Paraphrasing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides a list of reminders about paraphrases. Then student will self-assess their own writings to ensure that they have properly used their paraphrases.
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Other

Persuasive/argumentative Essay vs. Opinion Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan teaches students that writing a persuasive or argumentative essay for class is the same as writing an opinion article for their local newspaper. The lesson plan includes showing students examples of opinion writings and...
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Other

Troubleshooting Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site presents in chart form a list of common sentence problems with possible solutions offered. A couple additional links are provided for further information.
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Handout
Other

Wilfrid Laurier University: Paragraph Writing [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Thesis and Supporting Points

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation of a thesis and how many details are needed for support.