Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Use Literary Strategies/devices to Enhance the Style and Tone
You will learn how to write an imaginative story that uses literary strategies and devices to enhance style and tone.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Tone, Style, and Figurative Language: Practice 5
Mark examples of figurative language and the diction that indicate tone.
Colorado State University
Colorado State University: The Wac Clearinghouse
Although this site is primarily designed for instructors at the post-secondary level, the information and suggestions given can also be used, with only minor changes, at the high school or middle school levels as well. Learn ways for...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Online Writing Lab
A great resource for middle-school, high-school, and college writers, with worksheets, articles, model papers, and presentations that will help you with research, grammar, style, job-search and professional writing, and more. Includes...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: General Writing Resources
This helpful resource details the process of writing, including how to plan, write, and revise. Content also includes the different types or genres of writing, and exercises in grammar and mechanics.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Audience, Tone, and Style in Informative Text
Students will read samples of informative writing and highlight examples of how tone and style are used by the authors. Students will then apply this knowledge by writing their own informative text. Multiple examples of student work and...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: English 4; Introduction
A learning module to introduce students to this online learning format and complete a diagnostic writing assignment.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing Report Abstracts
From Purdue University, a lesson that lays out the details to writing a good abstract.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Write Literary Text Using Strategies to Enhance Style & Tone
A learning module that teaches students about using literary devices to enhance style and tone in four lessons: Introduction, Style in Literature, Tone, and Your Turn.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Tone, Style, and Figurative Language: Practice 5
A learning module that teaches students about tone, style, and figurative language in five mini-lessons: Introduction, Identifying Diction Indicating Tone, Identifying Figurative Language, Spotting Jarring Departures from Tone in Diction...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Style Chart [Pdf]
A brief organizer in which students can analyze a given selection's writing style. Includes sections on diction, figures of speech, images, and sentence structure.
Joe Landsberger
Organizing and Pre Writing: Seven Stages of Writing Assignments
This research-based site provides step-by-step directions needed to complete an extended writing piece.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Sum of Its Parts
Inspired by Julianna's understanding (from the novel Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen) that "A painting is more than the sum of its parts," learners will describe a memorable place that evokes a certain feeling or emotion. Students will...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: To Imitate Two Nature Writers
In this lesson each writer will compose and revise a "showing" description inpsired by an object or a place in nature. Long before drafting, students will discuss and compare the writing styles and techniques of published authors who...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Serendipitous Character Descriptions
In this lesson, students create a unique character and develop a descriptive paragraph utilizing strong word choice.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Wacky Advertisement (With Disclaimer) Activity
Inspired by Barry Lane's book 51 Wacky We-Search Reports, in this cross-curricular lesson students learn how to summarize properly.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Writing Concisely
This page compares wordy writing to a art gallery cluttered with a mixture of great works and poor attempts making it hard to see the great works. Remove the clutter, write concisely so the reader gets the point of the paper. It offers...
University of Sydney (Australia)
The Write Site
This interactive home page provides improvement module links in the areas of grammar, citations, and writing. The University of Sydney's The Write Site provides online support to help students improve their writing skills.
Other
Writing Scientific Reports
This tutorial site provides links to articles about writing a scientific report or essay as well as to sample essays.
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr College: Suggestions for Organizing and Writing Papers
This writing lab tutorial offers sound principles for writing papers, beginning with knowing your audience and objective. It covers patterns of organization, outlining, illustrations, writing, abstract, citations, and style.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Body of the Text
This page explains how to write the body of the text from your outline (a link to "How to Write an Outline" is provided). The body must support the thesis and provide evidence and examples to support the thesis.
Other
Suny: Conventions of Writing Papers About Literature
A professor's excellent explanation of how to write a professional sounding essay. Covers all aspects of an essay, and detailed examples give information on exactly how to write the essay.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Strunk's the Elements of Style
Bartleby.com's online version of William Strunk, Jr.'s classic reference book, "The Elements of Style."
Other
Georgia Perimeter: Choosing and Writing for an Audience
This resource goes extensively into the importance of establishing an audience when writing. It also defines types, how to choose, and how to write for an audience.