Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Draft an Essay
Draft the culminating task essay including the thesis statement. Review the prompt to check your work.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Writing Essays: The Length of the Introduction
This writing tutorial teaches you the proper length of an introductory paragraph.
ACT360 Media
Sequence Paragraphs
Here are a few brief hints and key words to use when organizing a piece of writing by sequence or time.
Other
Guide to Writing a Basic Essay: Write the Introduction
How to create a memorable introduction. This good advice can be applied to writing essays, speeches, anecdotes, and more.
Other
Writing for Business and Pleasure: Eliminate Wordiness to Write With Power
This how-to site gives writing tips for business writing. Brief explanations are provided for how to revise writing to ensure that redundant pairs, redundant modifiers, redundance categories, meaningless modifiers, and wordy expressions...
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Writing the in Class Essay
Key elements to consider in writing an essay. The process, time saving strategies, revising and proofreading are outlined and discussed.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Start With an Outline
This site from the University of Ottawa provides a brief, but effective, explanation of how to use a sentence outline to organize and shape your paper.
Other
Grammar book.com: Effective Writing
Brief list from The Blue Book with examples of how to take ineffective writing and transforming it into effective writing.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Writing for an Audience: Lesson 3
A slideshow introducing the concept of writing for an audience. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Writing for an Audience."
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Six Traits of Writing Organization
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson reinforces the importance of ensuring that purpose and pattern match well.
University of Richmond
University of Richmond/getting Started
Scroll to the heading "Getting Started" to find several prewriting links. Topics include "Where to Start a Paper," "Keeping a Pre-writing journal," and "Exploring Ideas Through Cubing."
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Fishcheeks
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart uses journaling and other writing activities to help students develop writing and vocabulary competencies.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Writing an Introduction and Conclusion
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using this flipchart, students will learn how to piece together an introduction and a conclusion for expository writing.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Writing With Pizazz
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps the students with the first step in the Six Traits Writing Process-- gathering ideas. Students are encouraged to analyze writing samples and brainstorm possible personal writing...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Grammar Paragraph
[Free Registration/Login Required] The Objective of this flipchart is to help students to begin to organize stories into paragraphs; and to begin to use paragraphing in presentation of dialogue in stories.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Kickin' It Up!
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers the three important areas of writing an essay: Unity, Coherence, and Elaboration. Graphic organizers are given as well as example prompts to practice each organizer with the students.
Leaf Group
E How: So You Wanna Deliver an Effective Speech?
An article which presents instruction and advice for every step of the speech writing process. Topic areas covered include: knowing your audience, organizing your speech, writing your speech, how to practice correctly, and handling...
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Philosophe.com: Getting to Know Your Audience
Essays about understanding your audience in the development of websites. This extended discussion can enlighten the understanding the audience in writing any work.
Colorado State University
Colorado State University: How Thesis Is Related to Purpose
This table shows the progression from topic to purpose to thesis, as well as explaining the role of the thesis statement. Use the links on the right to get to the specific information you are interested in including forms to fit purpose...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Skills: Introduction to Effective Introductions and Conclusions
This article provides an introduction to identifying strategies for writing effective introductions and conclusions. Click next on the bottom right to continue.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Skills: Introduction to Effective Paragraphs
This is an introduction to recognizing and evaluating effective paragraphs.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing an Outline
Check out two outlining links under the heading "Invention/Planning." "Developing an Outline" shows how to use different organizational principles. Sample outline shows a complete outline for a paper, including thesis statement and...
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English 100: Persuasive Essay
This tutorial provides writing instructions and ideas to help the student in preparing a persuasive essay.
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Public Speaking and Writing Tips
Over 20 useful tips on technical writing and public speaking. Many different categories within each topic are discussed. For public speaking tips, CLICK on the highlighted CLICK HERE at the end of paragraph 1.