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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Thesis Supported by Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising the thesis and supporting evidence in an essay.
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Activity
University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina Writing Center Handouts: Reorganizing Drafts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
One step you might want to take in revising a draft is to examine the organization of your paper and decide if and how the organization needs to be adjusted. This handout offers five strategies for examining and reorganizing your draft....
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Counterarguments Based on Evidence

For Students 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising counterarguments that anticipate objections in an essay.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising a Persuasive Essay: Organization Appropriate to Purpose

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] When you revise your persuasive essay, you need to make sure that the essay organization is appropriate to the audience, purpose, and context of your essay. Your message will...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising for Effective Introductions and Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an introduction, conclusion, and controlling idea or thesis in an essay.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Evaluating and Revising a Thesis: Practice 1 (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Evaluate the strength of a thesis in an essay and revise it if necessary.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising the organization of an essay, including purpose, audience, and context.
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Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: General Writing Resources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This helpful resource details the process of writing, including how to plan, write, and revise. Content also includes the different types or genres of writing, and exercises in grammar and mechanics.
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Handout
Boise State University

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This online writing assistance offers help in the writing process, grammar and mechanics, usage, and four different types of essays, as well as help on deciding what and how to document.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Polishing Tone, Style, and Vocabulary in Your Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn revision strategies you can use to polish your essay's style, tone, and vocabulary. W.11-12.1d Tone/Style, W.11-12.1e Tone/Style
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Relevant Information and Valid Inferences (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that it contains relevant information and valid inferences.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Relevant Information and Valid Inferences (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that it contains relevant information and valid inferences.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising for Effective Introductions and Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to adjust your thesis so it accurately reflects the main idea of your essay. You will learn how to breathe life into a dead introduction...
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Website
Other

Write Express: How to Write a Descriptive Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website focuses on how to write a descriptive essay including identifying subject, purpose, incorporating sensory images, and quick tips for planning, drafting, and revising the essay. It also provides links to related articles.
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Handout
ACT360 Media

Writing Den: Essay Writing Tips

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
All you want to know about writing essays, from prewriting to editing. Click on the tip-o-matic and find tips on anything dealing with grammar or writing.
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Website
Emory University

Emory the Human Costs of Exiting and Revising Trade and Investment Agreements

For Students 9th - 10th
Helpful presentation of information to explain the theories, issues, and debate as to why so many people are opposed to globalization. Helpful resource in understanding anti-globalization arguments.
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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing With Writers: Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
This page gives students specific guidelines & tips for a descriptive writing assignment. Students can publish descriptive writing here, as well. A thorough teacher's guide to descriptive writing is also provided.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Rhetorical Devices and Transitions (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising rhetorical devices and transitions in an essay.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and combining sentences to create sentence variety when you revise an essay.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Parallelism of Details (English I Writing)

For Students 9th Standards
You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Polish Tone, Style, and Figurative Language (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising the tone, style, and figurative language in an essay. W.9-10.1d & W.9-10.2e Style/tone/conv
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Parallelism (English Ii Writing)

For Students 10th - 12th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.
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Handout
BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Formal Tone in a Discursive Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page provides several tips for using formal tone in an essay. The tips are arranged into 'Do' and 'Do not use' categories.
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Activity
SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Essay Writing Workshop

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site by Empire State College explains the entire process of essay writing. It begins by defining what an essay is and continues then through the entire process, from prewriting to gathering information to shaping information to...