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Research Assistant: For Students: Purpose Statement
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?.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Abraham Lincoln: A Good Man? Or a Good Man!
In this lesson, students use video from American Masters: Bill T. Jones: A Good Man along with primary sources to investigate the life of Lincoln and write a one page argument essay on whether Lincoln was "a good man."
University of Sydney (Australia)
University of Sydney: Using Quotes Effectively
This 2-page resource provides guidelines for how to use quotations effectively in essays. Includes a list of ten common mistakes that writers make when using quotations in essays and how they can be avoided.
University of Glasgow
University of Glasgow: Critical Reviews
This site is designed to be used by psychology students at the university level, but it provides helpful instruction for anyone writing critical reviews of non-fiction. Instruction includes everything from how to be critical to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Deciding Your City's Energy Future
Students learn about fossil fuels and renewable energy sources to help them decide which type of energy should be used to power a city's electric grid in the coming decades.
Other
Idea: Debatabase
The IDEA Debatabase is designed to help high school and college level debaters by providing both pro and con arguments for hundreds of debate topics. These arguments have been prepared by experts in debate, both debaters and judges....
University of Sydney (Australia)
University of Sydney: Planning the Overall Structure
This resource discusses the steps in planning the structure of a student's argumentative essay. Page 4 of this article focuses on Thesis statement.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Elements of an Argument Test
Argument essay terms are included on this test over the following words: argument, claim, support, reasons, evidence, and counterargument. Six multiple choice questions are provided on this assessment.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Elements of an Argument Flashcards
Argument essay terms are included in this review exercise. Interactive vocabulary flashcards are provided for the following words: argument, claim, support, reasons, evidence, and counterargument.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Trade Offs and Maximizing Efficiency in a Fast Food Restaurant
Students learn about how to improve efficiency by examining fast food restaurants. More specifically, they learn about the concepts of trade-offs, constraints, increasing efficiency and systems thinking. They consider how to improve the...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Critical Reading: Logic and Structure
This lesson focuses on structure and logic including types and purposes of essays, organizational patterns, argumentative writing, and logic and fallacies.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Argument Papers
A series of six screencast lessons explaining the process of argumentative writing. The first [4 min. 22 sec.] focuses on overall structure and purpose. The second [6 mins, 18 secs] explains how to state a claim. The third [6 min. 3...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Claim, Evidence and Reasoning Test
Informational report terms are included in this assessment. This test assesses the following text feature terms: evidence, claim, qualitative evidence, quantitative evidence, and reasoning. Images of the terms are included alongside the...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Claim, Evidence and Reasoning Match
Informational report terms are included in this review "Match" game. Questions are provided for the following words: evidence, claim, qualitative evidence, quantitative evidence, and reasoning..
Quizlet
Quizlet: Claim, Evidence and Reasoning Learn
In this activity, students will type an informational report term. When given a definition or an example, students will practice identifying the following terms: evidence, claim, qualitative evidence, quantitative evidence, and...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Claim, Evidence and Reasoning Flashcards
Argument terms are included in this review exercise. Flashcards are provided for the following words: evidence, claim, qualitative evidence, quantitative evidence, and reasoning. Images of each of these terms are also included.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Elements of an Argument Match
Argument terms are included in this review "Match" game. Questions are provided for the following words in this review exercise. for the following words: argument, claim, support, reasons, evidence, and counterargument.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Elements of an Argument Learn
In this activity, students will type the argument term associated with each definition or example. When given a definition or an example, students will practice identifying the following terms: argument, claim, support, reasons,...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Life Isn't Fair Deal With It" by Mike Myatt
A learning module that begins with "Life Isn't Fair-- Deal With It" by Mike Myatt, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...