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Empire State College: Shaping Information: Ordering Information and Outlining
Discusses finding a logical order for the ideas you wish to present in your essay. Uses samples to show how changing the position of the topic sentence changes the emphasis. Briefly touches on transitions. Then discusses the outline as...
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Empire State College: Developing Ideas for Writing
Explains nine methods for developing ideas for writing, including freewriting, brainstorming, clustering/mapping, maintaining a personal journal, responding to a text, maintaining a response journal, responding to a specific assignment,...
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Empire State College: Thesis and Shaping Information
This tutorial on writing essays contains several sections pertaining to the thesis. These include thesis definition, characteristics, analysis of thesis to gather and shape information, and topic sentences. Many examples given. W.9-10.2...
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Empire State College: Writing Style Seminar
This detailed resource provides a good tutorial on writing style, whether informal or formal. It explains how to get style through word and sentence choice and includes lots of examples. W.9-10.1d & W.9-10.2e Style/tone/conv,...
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Empire State College: Shaping Information: Thesis Definition
Extensive explanation of thesis development.
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Empire State College: Writer's Complex: Grammar Interactive Exercises
This site has an index to interactive exercises testing knowledge of various types of grammar. Some categories offer basic and advanced exercises. Answers are explained.
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Empire State College: Italics & Underlining
This site contains information regarding the correct use of italics and underlining, along with many examples.
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Empire State College: Parentheses
This site contains information regarding the correct usage of parentheses, along with examples for each use.
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Empire State College: The Research Paper in Progress
Follow a student reasearch paper from prewriting to drafting to final copy, and read the student tutor's comments along the way. This site provides links through several successive pages.
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Empire State College: Quotation Marks
In this grammar tutorial, students edit the sentences by placing the quotation marks where they are appropriate. Click "submit" to check work.
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Empire State College: Apostrophes
This resource looks at the three main uses of apostrophes: to take the place of deleted letters; to show possession; and to show plurals of letters, numbers, symbols, abbreviations and words used as words.
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Empire State College: Colons: Rules for Use
This resource discusses four uses of the colon: to signal a list, to signal and emphasize a comment or explanation that follows, to show that a longer quotation is coming, and after a greeting in a business letter. L.9-10.2b Colons
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Empire State College: Semi Colons
This resource discusses two uses of the semicolon and provides examples for each use.
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Empire State College: Compound Sentences
A brief resource about compound sentences. Includes a definition and some examples. It also includes basic and advanced practice exercises on compound and complex sentences.
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Key Terms in Academic Writing: Key Terms in Academic Writing
This site offers a clear definition of what is expected in a definition essay. It also provides a link to a sample paper, with instructor's comments, as well as a link to the Purdue University On-Line Writing Lab.
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Empire State College: Rules for Use of Commas
Five basic uses of the comma and some other common uses are discussed with an example and a tip after each rule.
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Empire State College: Essay Writing Workshop
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...
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Empire State College: Hyphens
This site contains information regarding the correct use of the hyphen, along with examples. L.11-12.2a Hyphens
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Empire State College: Documenting Sources
Here's a basic guide to documentation -- more of the why and what and when, than the actual format.
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Empire State College: Basic Noun Pronoun Agreement
Notes on pronoun-noun agreement with links to additional information and practice exercises.
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Empire State College: Exercise 2b: Agreement With Trick Singulars Advanced
Correct five sentences by identifying the incorrect words and supplying the correct word choice.
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Empire State College: Exercise 6: Pronoun Reference
Rewrite five sentences so that the pronouns agree with the nouns they replace.
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Empire State College: Quiz: Compound and Complex Sentences
This resource offers a short, five-question quiz on compound and complex sentences. It gives information, explanations, and the correct answers.
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Empire State College: Pronouns and Pronouns
This writing lab tutorial explains the usage of pronouns in proper writing. Exercises included.