Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of a Composition
Writing a Paper? Here at the Capital Community College is everything you could ever ask for while preparing your essay. This site includes the writing process, structure, thesis statement, transitions, the computer as a writing...
Get It Write
Get It Write: "Sit" and "Set"
Learn something about the conjugation of verbs and transitive and intransitive verbs in this discussion about the meaning of "sit" and "set." This tutorial will teach you how to use these words correctly. A brief quiz checks your...
Get It Write
Get It Write: Lie and Lay
Learn the difference between "lie" and "lay" in this tutorial. You'll also find out about transitive and intransitive verbs, so you'll be able to think through which form of "lie" or "lay" to use. A brief quiz checks your understanding.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Nonfiction: Comparison/contrast Writing
This lesson focuses on how to write a nonfiction comparison/contrast paper including the reasons for writing them and the three organizational strategies. It features links to transition words, graphic organizers, Venn diagrams,...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing Essays for Exams
This handout provides a comprehensive look at writing essays for exams including what a well-written answer to an essay exam question includes, a step-by-step decription of how to write an effective essay exam, an explanation of patterns...
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Writing Paragraphs
This site from the University of Ottawa provides a wonderfully designed website that not only gives you exhaustive information on paragraph writing. Students will engage in starting with outlines, writing topic sentences, dividing their...
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin: Writing Center: Using Semicolons
A writing tutorial for the correct use of semicolons to link two independent clauses, clauses with commas, clauses connected by conjunctive adverbs or transitional phrases, and to link lists where the items contain commas. Examples and...
Other
Analog to Digital: Why and How to Teach Students to Write for an Online Audience
This article discusses the importance of teaching students how to write for an online audience using traditional writing skills but transitioning these to digital media. The author talks about ways to incorporate social media and...
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Writing the Ged Essay Using Transitional Words
A critical part of the writing process is using transitional words and phrases to let the reader know when a change is coming. Learn more about how to use transitions and acquaint yourself with examples of transitional words.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Chronological Transition Words
This slideshow lesson focuses on chronological transition words; it defines and lists the categories of transition words. It defines chronological transition words, states their purpose, provides a list of them, and shows how to write...
TES Global
Blendspace: Expository Writing Using Transitions
A seven-part learning module on using transitions in expository writing. Lessons include text, images, a video, and a writing prompt.
Towson University
Towson University: Distinguish Between Transitive, Intransitive Verbs Exercise 1
This is a 10-question, self-grading practice/quiz on distinguishing between transitive and intransitive verbs.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Exercise 4
This is a 10-question, self-grading quiz/exercise over Transitive and Intransitive Verbs.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Exercise 5
This is a 10-question, self-grading quiz/exercise over Transitive and Intransitive Verbs.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Exercise 1
This is a 10-question, self-grading quiz/exercise over Transitive and Intransitive Verbs.
Towson University
Towson University: Distinguishing Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Exercise 2
This is a 10-question, self-grading practice/quiz on distinguishing between transitive and intransitive verbs.
Towson University
Towson University: Distinquish Between Transitive, Intransitive Verbs Exercise 3
This is a 10-question, self-grading practice/quiz on distinguishing between transitive and intransitive verbs.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Exercise 3
This is a 10-question, self-grading quiz/exercise over Transitive and Intransitive Verbs.
Towson University
Towson University: Distinquish Between Transitive, Intransitive Verbs Exercise 4
This is a 10-question, self-grading practice/quiz on distinguishing between transitive and intransitive verbs.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Exercise 2
This is a 10-question, self-grading quiz/exercise over Transitive and Intransitive Verbs.
Towson University
Towson University: Distinquish Between Transitive, Intransitive Verbs Exercise 5
This is a 10-question, self-grading practice/quiz on distinguishing between transitive and intransitive verbs.
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...
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides & Strategies: Writing Basics
This site by University of St. Thomas focuses on the basics for writing any paragraph. It is developed in outline fashion and is very easy to follow. This site provides a basic overview of the process of writing without going into a...
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Verbs
This entry focuses on types of verbs and their functions including action, auxiliary, linking, regular and irregular, transitive and intransitive, and indicative, imperative, and subjunctive mood. It explains and provides examples of each.