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Keyboarding: Formatting a Report Using MLA Style
Keyboarding is one of the most basic skills needed to master modern technology, and it's also one of the most important. The class uses Century 21 Keyboarding and Information Processing to guide their hands in typing a report in the...
Curated OER
Conducting Research
"Conducting Research" is a short presentation that walks secondary students through steps for researching. Plagiarism, style, citing, and creating bibliographies are overviewed. While this is a short slide show, it would be useful to add...
Curated OER
Writing the Date
In this language arts worksheet, students identify why a comma is used between the date and the year when writing the date. Then they copy the dates listed and use a comma when necessary.
Curated OER
Online Museum Worksheet
In this technology worksheet, students research an online museum and select a topic within that museum. They read the story section and summarize it in a paragraph. Then students list five important things that they learned about the...
Curated OER
Creating A Professional Newsletter
Students orally explain the following desktop terminology: nameplate, pullquote. Students write a paragraph on "How To Insert A Symbol & Special Characters" Students demonstrate how use the format painter button. Students design a...
Curated OER
The Day Before
Students explore the impact a major event has on people and on history as their team selects an event and publishes their own magazine to recreate the times in which such an event occurred.
Other
Webfoot: A Beginner's Guide to Effective E Mail
An article about effective E-mail use. Includes links to an introduction, what makes E-mail different, context, format, and acronyms and jargon.
The College Board
College Board Online:ap Chemistry
The official AP chemistry site by the College Board. Check here for format, calculator usage, and time constraints, as well as sample tests.
Other
Web Style Guide, 2nd Edition
An excellent, comprehensive web site that lists each and every step in creating your own personal web page. The site breaks down the steps into eight chapters. A great resource!
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing for a North American Business Audience
This lesson gives guidelines for business writing in Western (North American) culture. From Purdue University.
Other
Sample Summary Essay: Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
A short summary of an article written on the famous Greek play by Sophocles. A good reference for a student looking for examples of summary essays.
California State University
Csun: Debate: Debate Formats
Great explanation of the debate formats commonly used in high schools and universities. High school formats include Team Policy and Lincoln-Douglas debates, while university formats include NDT, CEDA, and Parliamentary debates. Formats,...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Character Credo Poems
Build your student's vocabulary, word choice and voice by asking them to write from the perspective of a particular character. Lesson plan incorporates the R.A.F.T.S. strategy: role, audience, format, topic and strong verb.
Other
The Art of Writing a Press Release
This site provides information on the process of writing an effective press release.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Mla Format: Headings and Subheadings
This tutorial explains how to format headings and subheadings in MLA style. Learning the proper placement of headings and subheadings can help communicate content more effectively. Both text and audio are provided. [1:37]
Other
Bloomsburg University: Lincoln Douglas and Team Debate Formats
Dr. Tomlinson provides basic outlines of the two most prominent debate formats including time limits and the characteristics of each phase of the debate.
Other
Apa Style Central
Use this comprehensive resource to learn about APA style. Students and teachers can use this site as a springboard for any questions they may have concerning APA Style.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Formatting Math as Text: Common Algebraic Notation
Math can look so pretty, all nicely formatted in the textbook. But when you go to e-mail your instructor with a question, or post your question to a math tutoring forum, you can end up with a mess or with something that totally doesn't...
Vancouver Island University
Malaspina: Punctuating Quotations Exercise
Passage B - Rewrite this passage in order to improve the grammar, punctuation, parallelism, and format for titles. Passage C - Rewrite this passage in order to improve the style and correct quotation mark errors.
Other
Dos Tutorial
Ever wanted some simple explanations of MS-DOS systems? This site gives them to you in a question and answer format.
English Zone
English Zone: Chart Reading Practice 1
Practice reading and understanding information when it is provided in chart format. This website provides a simple chart and asks questions about the chart's information, which can be answered and checked.
English Zone
English Zone: Reading a City Map 1
Practice reading information provided in map format. This website has a simple city map that you refer to when answering questions about various places located on the map. Choose the correct response for each multiple choice question and...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Formatting Your Paper
This site gives general formatting guidelines applicable to most papers.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Apa Style: Lesson 2
This lesson introduces APA formatting style. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "APA Style."