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American Institute of Graphic Arts: Art and Propaganda
Read an illustrated transcript of Milton Glaser's keynote address to a symposium on propaganda held in 2008, in which he muses on the purpose of art. Glaser, a celebrated graphic designer whose work is represented in major museums around...
TES Global
Tes: Analyzing & Comparing Non Fiction
[Free Registration/Login Required] Resource notes to aid students as they analyze different types of nonfiction. The GAP (genre, audience, and purpose) acronym is provided to use when comparing nonfiction texts.
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Old Dominion University: Writing Sample Placement Test: Sample Essay
This is a sample writing placement test narrative essay and a list of questions students should ask themselves about their writing. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.3
University of Missouri
University of Missouri: Clear Writing: Ten Principles of Clear Statement
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...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose Lesson
In this learning module, students will learn about authors' purposes for writing. PowerPoint lessons, worksheets, and quizzes are provided to reinforce the understanding of why authors write assorted pieces. This module is designed to...
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...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Tone: A Matter of Attitude
This site focuses on tone and audience with examples.
Thomson Reuters
Find Law: u.s. Constitution: Thirteenth Amendment
Presents the Thirteenth Amendment - Slavery and Involuntary Servitude, which abolished slavery and forced servitude in the United States. Includes four annotations to the Amendment.
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...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Understanding Language
This instructional activity focuses on understanding the language, both verbal and non-verbal, of your speech. It discusses the importance of language, word choice, purpose and audience, ways of thinking about language, venue and...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Evaluating Sources: Introduction to Online Sources
This is an introduction to evaluate methods to assess the quality of online sources. Click the next button on the right bottom.
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.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose Worksheets
Several worksheets and assessments are provided on this module. Students will have numerous exposures to the topic of "author's purpose" in each practice exercise and assessment.
Education.com
Education.com: Purposeful Writing: Kindergarten
[Free Registration/Login Required] Your kindergarten students will learn how to share their opinion with others through entertaining and purposeful persuasive writing practice. At the completion of this lesson, students will be able to...
Leaf Group
E How: How to Write a Briefing Paper
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.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Unit: Politics
Students explore the impact language has on politics and social beliefs. They explore the evolution of language (drawing on the knowledge gained through previous research), consider how language evolves, and explore who controls language...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Develop Work: Revise and Edit
Evaluate a response to determine how well it meets the expectations of a rubric. Then revise and edit your work based on the model.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Revise Your Work
Revise the organization of your work to make sure the structure is appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience. This will help develop work that is clear and coherent.
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides & Strategies: Writing Persuasive Essays
This site focuses on the student learning how to write strong persuasive essays. Strategies are provided to help the student complete a persuasive writing assignment.
University of Richmond
University of Richmond: What Is Analysis?
This site from the University of Richmond defines analysis through two sample paragraphs. It also contains a brief section on using analysis. A very brief site, but good, factual information is provided.
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Drs.cavanaugh: Science proj.handbook, Display Checklist
A checklist of the nine or ten items which should be on your display, plus an illustration of where they should go on a tri-fold poster.
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Hamilton: Essentials of Effective Persuasive Essays
This resource provides good insight on how to structure a well organized effective persuasive essay.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Paragraph Types
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart describes the four types of paragraphs, their purpose, audience, and organizing structure. Assessment questions are included.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Scientific Method
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was created to teach students the steps in the scientific method (Purpose, Hypothesis, Procedures, Analysis, and Conclusion). The flipchart contains images that help to define and...