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Research Assistant: For Students: Purpose Statement

For Students 4th - 9th
This site gives advice on how to write an effective purpose (thesis) statement. The summary is given as answers to four questions: what? why? when? how?.
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University of Washington

Guide to Writing Thesis Statements

For Students 9th - 10th
These guidelines show how to write effective thesis statements with examples of effective and ineffective statements.
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Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Fiction Writing Basics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource discusses some terms and techniques that are useful to the beginning and intermediate fiction writer, and to instructors who are teaching fiction at these levels. W.11-12.3a Narratives
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Cambridge Rindge & Latin School

Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Writing a Statement of Purpose

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An excellent tip sheet for creating and perfecting a statement of purpose. Also includes information about thesis statements and examples.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Steps of Preparing a Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the steps for preparing a speech including choose a topic, analyze the audience, gather materials and evidence, develop a thesis, support ideas, organize and outline the speech, draft the speech, prepare to...