Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Editing and Rewriting Process
This site examines all aspects of the rewriting process. Includes advice on how to use computers during the process, comments on peer editing, links to related topics, and an editing checklist.
Colorado State University
Colorado State Writing Center: Understanding Your Purpose
Use the links on the right to get a better understanding of purpose in writing including the types of purposes and how audience affects purpose. Click on Purpose and Audience and Purpose and Strategies. W.9-10.4 Write/Audience/Purpose;...
Colorado State University
Colorado State Writing Center: Adapting to Your Audience
A clear guide to understanding the audience for your writing, this site leads you through steps to help you identify your audience, then structure your writing to meet that audience's needs and expectations. Use links on the right....
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Determining Your Audience
On this website you will find information, two presentations, and a practice worksheet explaining how to decide the audience of a written piece and how to appeal to an intended or general audience in an original text....
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Audience and Writing Style
This slideshow tutorial focuses on adjusting writing style to fit the audience. It looks at audience characteristics and discusses how to adapt the vocabulary, sentence style, and tone to fit them. It provides an example using the topic...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Starting the Writing Process
Getting started on a paper or story always seems to be the greatest obstacle. Learn some simple prewriting strategies to overcome this common problem. Use the links on the left to work through each step of the writing process. W.9-10.5...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revising for Organization for Purpose, Audience, and Context
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising the organization of an essay appropriate to purpose, audience, and context. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.5 Develop and strengthen...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Revising for a Different Audience [Pdf]
An activity where students are asked to write for a specific audience. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.5 Develop and strengthen writing
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...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Revision Dice [Pdf]
Revision can be a difficult process for students. With a roll of the dice, students are reminded of the steps they can take to improve their writing. Includes templates for four types of dice that focus on ideas, organization, voice, and...