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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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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Compare and Contrast Example 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This three-page essay provides an example of an comparison/contrast 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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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Compare and Contrast Example 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This three-page essay provides an example of an comparison/contrast 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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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: Literary Analysis Example 2

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

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Literary Analysis Example 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This seven-page essay provides an example of a literary analysis 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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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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Website
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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Website
Joe Landsberger

Study Guides & Strategies: Writing Basics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A fairly detailed list of steps to take, with descriptions of those steps, in order to write a good essay.
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Professional Doc
TESL Journal

The Internet Tesl Journal: Reading Nonfiction Texts Fast

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Article lists a series of steps and tasks to make reading texts more efficient and clear. Written primarily for teachers of ESL students but tasks work for all students.
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Activity
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Classification and Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides some help reading an essay that deals with the classification and analysis of a piece of literature. Offers some instruction about the type of essay, a sample text, and guiding questions to help you analyze your own...
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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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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Analytical Writing in the Content Areas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Because writing is thinking, the organization of students' writing reflects both the structure of their thinking and the depth of their understanding. Students should be writing in all their classes, explaining what they know and how...
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Website
SUNY Empire State College

Key Terms in Academic Writing: Key Terms in Academic Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers a clear definition of what is expected in a definition essay. It also provides a link to a sample paper, with instructor's comments, as well as a link to the Purdue University On-Line Writing Lab.
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Handout
Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Alliteration

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site fully explores the term "alliteration." Content includes a definition, examples in literature, and a look at why and how it has been used throughout literary history.
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Handout
Towson University

Towson University: Commonly Confused Words: Credible / Creditable / Credulous

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This entry focuses on the commonly confused words credible, creditable, and credulous including providing an explanation, examples, and a link to a quiz/exercise.
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Whiteboard
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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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Emotions and Colorful Days

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will learn to write descriptively.
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Unit Plan
Vocabulary.com

The New Sat: Words to Capture Tone List #1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains a list of 25 words, associated with the tone of passages, from the New SAT. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings of these words.