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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writer's Notebook: A Pentalogue: 5 Personal Beliefs

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This lesson has students create an end-of-year reflective pentalogue (five personal beliefs). The list is to be about five different things each student has learned in the past year about what makes good, high-quality writing. A revised...
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Unnecessary Words and Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains the need to revise writing to remove unnecessary words and phrases to produce clear, concise writing. Examples are provided.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Revision Techniques: Peer Feedback

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses how to revise a paper based on peer feedback.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Revision Techniques: Eliminating Excess

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses how to revise a paper to remove extraneous information.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Revising a Conclusion

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses improve a conclusion through revision.
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Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Where Do I Begin?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article provides an overview of writing a research paper by first understanding the specific assignment and then offering links to how to begin research; outlining; drafting; and revising, editing, and proofreading.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Grammar Rules

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a grammar handbook with links to grammar rules for the parts of speech, punctuation marks, mechanics, sentence style and clarity, composition, academic writing, organization and development, revising and editing, and research and...
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Analyze and Annotate a Model Response

For Students 9th Standards
Analyze and annotate a model response focusing on support for a claim. Then revise and edit your work based on the model. This will help you develop work that is clear and coherent and appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.
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Activity
Franklin and Marshall College

Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary: The Autobiography Project

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Part of a project that culminated in 2006, this site contains great supports for those who are attempting to write about their own lives. Getting started, writing drafts, revising and other topics are all addressed.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Putting It Together: Readability

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This readability lesson plan focuses on developing strategies for proofreading and editing your writing for readability errors such as grammar and punctuation.
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Article
Other

Science Fiction Writer: Robert J. Sawyer: "On Writing": Word Processing Tricks

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer shares his word processing tricks and tools for proofreading and editing a manuscript. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.6 Use technology to produce and publish writing
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Activity
McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill: Glenco: Writer's Choice: Grade 7:grammar, Usage, and Mechanics

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Two interactive exercises where students retype three short paragraphs while making corrections in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and usage. When finished, answers can be displayed so students can check the accuracy of...
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Unit Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Develop Final Work

For Students 9th Standards
Develop work that is clear and coherent and appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.
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Activity
McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill: Glenco: Writer's Choice: Grade 8: Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics

For Students 6th - 8th
Two interactive exercises where students retype three short paragraphs while making corrections in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and usage. When finished, answers can be displayed so students can check the accuracy of...
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Appearance

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on the appearance of the paper after the writing is complete. It offers links to a pre-printing checklist and a post-printing checklist.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Wordiness

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on reducing wordiness in writing by using more concise language, and avoiding extra-long words and sentences.

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