Scholastic
Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Claim Evldence Reasoning [Pdf]
This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will identify a claim, list text evidence that supports the claim, and explain how the information can be used for their future understanding of...
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Handouts: Writing About Science
Information and specific tips on what scientific writing is and how to make it more precise, clear, and objective.
Other
Designing a Readable User Manual
An article with information and strategies for technical document writing. More article under "Resources".
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Differentiate Among Empirical, Anecdotal, and Logical Evidence
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Distinguish among different kinds of evidence in a text that supports conclusions and arguments in texts.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Counterarguments Based on Evidence
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising counterarguments that anticipate objections in an essay.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Academic Writing: Reverse Paramedic Method
Explanations and examples of the Reverse Paramedic Method used to edit scientific writing.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Skills: Logic in Paragraphs
This lesson focuses on logic in paragraphs including logic, structure, rank order, and organization.
Other
Wheeling Jesuit University: How to Write a Cause Effect Essay [Pdf]
This writing lab explains the terms "cause" and "effect" and how to write cause-effect essays.
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton & Company: Lit Web: Types and Functions of Secondary Sources
Information about secondary sources as they are used when writing a research essay.
W. W. Norton
W.w. Norton & Company: Elements of the Essay: Thesis
An explanation and examples of interpretive claims and evaluative claims in a thesis statement. Click on list on the right for more information about elements of the essay.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Engineering Communication Program: Memos
This site shows exactly how to write a memo. The site talks about the components to use: header, purpose, summary, discussion, action.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Facts and Reasoning: Water Scarcity
In this science-themed literacy lesson about water scarcity, students identify the author's claim and how the author supports this claim with evidence.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Facts and Reasoning: Forecasting Hurricanes
In this science-themed literacy lesson about forecasting hurricanes, students identify the author's claim and how the author supports the claim with evidence and reasoning.
Other
Clark County Schools: Rna & Protein Synthesis: Claim, Evidence, Reasoning
This is one lesson in a larger learning module. In it, students investigate the essential question: How does DNA get the genetic message out so proteins can be built?
Other
Learning Design Collaborative: Cer: Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning
Students write a scientific claim that is backed up by evidence and supported by scientific reasoning. Base your answer on your reading of a data table.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: The Writing Center: Scientific Reports
A handout exploring how to complete a scientific report based on scientific research. The site describes the sections needed as well as how to insert graphs and tables.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: High Order Concerns (Ho Cs) for Business Writing
A great reference when writing business messages or letters. Discusses the most important issues involved in business writing and an organizational system for them.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing a Research Paper
This resource provides many links to information on writing research papers.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Do You Know How?
Students will write in a technical genre. "Technical writing conveys specific information about a technical subject to a specific audience for a specific purpose. The words and graphics of technical writing are meant to be practical:...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Writing a Persuasive Essay
For this lesson students research opposing viewpoints on controversial issues and develop their own position papers. Though primarily for English classes, this lesson could be easily adapted for an interdisciplinary unit with social...
Other
Webfoot.com: A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email Page Layout
This website focuses on page layout and more specifically the length of paragraphs and lines as found in emails.
Other
English 101: Peer Review Guidelines for Assignment 3
A site for peer review is provided to accompany a research paper. An assessment rubric is shown that articulates performance levels.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Report Styles
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are able to interact with the flipchart to review acceptable styles for formatting reports and letters.
Leaf Group
E How: How to Write a Method Section for an Apa Style Paper
An explanation of how to write a section for a paper dealing with the methodology of a study in APA style.