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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Style and Syntax (English Iii Reading)

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Evaluate the authors' style and syntax, and evaluate how effective style and syntax are to the overall meaning of the text. L.11-12.3a Syntax
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Polishing Tone, Style, and Vocabulary (English Iii Research)

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn revision strategies you can use to polish your research paper's style, tone, and vocabulary. W.11-12.1d Tone/Style
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Handout
University of Missouri

University of Missouri: Clear Writing: Ten Principles of Clear Statement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page features a list of ten principles that lead to writing clearly and concisely, such as avoiding unnecessary words, writing like you talk, writing to express and not to impress, and the like. It also discusses "fog indexes" to...
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Handout
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Toefl Practice Site: Coherence and Unity

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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....
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Clarity: Avoiding Assumptions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses avoiding assumptions about the reader. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.4
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Handout
The Write Place

Literacy Education Online: Cohesion: Using Repetition and Reference Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...