University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Toefl Practice Site: Coherence and Unity
This site discusses coherence achieved through major and minor connector transitions. Examples are given, and there is a link to an exercise meant for the particular class this site was designed for, still useful practice for anyone....
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Organization Appropriate to Purpose, Audience, and Context
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson will teach you how to write and organize an essay so that it addresses different purposes, different audiences, and different contexts.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina Writing Center Handouts: Audience
Identifying and then writing appropriately for a specific audience is one of the most difficult writing tasks for many student writers. This handout explains how to address these two challenges and gives some concrete suggestions to help...
Other
Tidewater Community College: Writing Center: Organizing Paragraphs and Essays
This page gives a quick, but thorough look at a few good ways to organize a piece of writing.
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
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...
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: Coherence
Discusses the importance of coherence in a composition. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.4. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.1.c
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Analytical Papers: Lesson 2
This lesson introduces analytical papers. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Analytical Papers."
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.
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 Organization
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses writing organization and how the organization of a written work varies based on the type of work it is. Assessment questions follow the lesson. L.9-10.3 knowledge of lang
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: 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.
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online: Cohesion: Using Repetition and Reference Words
This site gives a brief overview of how to achieve cohesion or coherence in writing. It explains how the repeating of key words and using reference words help tie ideas together. Use link in first paragraph to find charts of transitional...
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...