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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Organization Appropriate to Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay that is organized appropriate to audience, purpose, and context.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Logical Appeals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This activity focuses on using logical appeals in persuasive speeches including inductive and deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning and associative reasoning, forming a rational appeal, and errors in reasoning-formal and informal.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Rhetorical Appeals: Appeals to Logos

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on appeals to logos, or appealing to your audience's logical side including your types of source material, remembering your audience, and being sure to maintain clear lines of reasoning throughout.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Rhetorical Appeals: Establishing Ethos

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on establishing ethos or credibility. You can establish ethos-or credibility-in two basic ways: you can use or build your own credibility on a topic, or you can use credible sources, which, in turn, builds your...
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Analysis: Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on evidence in the analysis including being selective with evidence, being clear and explicit, and moving past obvious interpretations.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills: Formula for Refutation and Rebuttal

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the formula for refuting and rebutting counterarguments including accurately representing opposing viewpoints, using a respectful, non-incendiary tone, using reliable information, using qualifying words to aid...
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills: Further Your Understanding: Refutation and Rebuttal

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on examples of rebuttal and refutation to improve your understanding.
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Graphic
University of Sydney (Australia)

The Write Site: Structuring Your Individual Arguments

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A diagram is provided to help students organize an argument. Assertions, sub-assertions, evidence, and counterarguments are included. Click on page 2 at the bottom to see the functions of the above and page 3 to for a practice activity....
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Handout
Other

Wheeling Jesuit University: How to Write a Cause Effect Essay [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This writing lab explains the terms "cause" and "effect" and how to write cause-effect essays.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Organization Appropriate to Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to adjust the organization of your essay to make it appropriate for different purposes, different audiences, and different contexts.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Critical Reading: Supporting Claims

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This instructional activity focuses on supporting claims including the distinction between main ideas and supporting details, relationship between purpose and supporting details, sufficient and related support, and support and...
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Handout
University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin: Writing Center: Formatting Science Reports

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site outlines the necessary elements of a scientific report. The site is broken down into the follow segments: title, abstract, introduction, methods, results, and discussion. Within each section is a contents section as well as a...
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Handout
Leaf Group

E How: How to Write a Briefing Paper

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article by Jody Hanson explains how to write a briefing paper, a concise communication to keep people up to date on the status of a project and any changes.
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Handout
University College London

University College London: Subject and Predicate

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Survey of English Usage provides explanations and examples for the subject and the predicate.
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Handout
Other

Cleveland State University: Introductions & Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Briefly explains how the introduction and the conclusion work together. Then gives bulleted lists dealing with the introduction and conclusion separately. The conclusion list explains how to make a conclusion go beyond a mere summary...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Map Cause and Effect

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer flipchart uses the fishbone technique to map cause and effect. It is useful for helping students understand and analyze reading passages, historical events, and scientific...
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Website
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Cause and Effect Papers: Organization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses structuring an outline for a cause and effect paper.
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Article
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills:introduction to Rebuttal and Refutation of Counterargument

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an introduction to rebutting and refuting counterarguments. Click the next button on the bottom right for more information about the counterargument.
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Article
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills: Putting It Together: Academic Argument

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a summary of the academic argument learning objectives including constructing a debatable thesis statement, avoiding logical fallacies, building common ground with readers, and incorporating rebuttal and refutation.
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Handout
W. W. Norton

W.w. Norton & Company: Elements of the Essay: Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation of how to incorporate evidence into an essay in order to provide support for the thesis.