Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Appropriate Appeals
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising essays so that they contain the appropriate appeals.
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Writing Strong Introductions
This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center article provides tips for writing a strong introduction for an essay. Using the following are discussed in these tips: anecdote, startling statement, famous ideas, question(s), first...
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Handouts: Evidence
What kinds of evidence best support the points you make in a paper? Where can you find the evidence you need? This handout answers all these questions and more, including the difference between primary and secondary sources. You'll also...
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Writing Strong Conclusions
This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center site provides tips to writing a strong conclusion to an essay. The article discusses incorporating an anecdote, a basic summary, a startling summary, famous ideas, and/or hints to...
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Writing Hypotheses
This informative page describes the true purposes of the hypothesis and how it should be used. Not only shows how they are written, but also helps students figure out the dependent versus independent variable.
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania: "Anecdote of the Jar" by Wallace Stevens
This is the text of the poem "Anecdote of the Jar" by Wallace Stevens.
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Guide to Writing a Basic Essay: Write the Introduction
How to create a memorable introduction. This good advice can be applied to writing essays, speeches, anecdotes, and more.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Differentiate Among Empirical, Anecdotal, and Logical Evidence
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Distinguish among different kinds of evidence in a text that supports conclusions and arguments in texts.
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Astoria by Washington Irving
This resource provides online text, including the author's introduction, for "Astoria or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains" by Washington Irving. It also provides a link to a publication history for this work.
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The People's Paths: Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America
Written in 1784, this piece by Benjamin Franklin, considers the relative meaning of civilization and manners while he recalls several anecdotes of interaction between the European settlers and the Natives of North America.
BBC
Bbc Bitesize: Introducing a Discursive Essay
As part of a revision and writing section of BBC Bitesize, this site goes over several tips relating to writing the introduction of a discursive essay. Five separate methods are described, including provocative, balanced, illustration,...
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Beginning Reporting: The News Lead Part 2
Sometimes the best way to begin is with an anecdote or example. Reporter Jim Hall of the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star gives tips about how to write effectively with this approach.
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania: Wallace Stevens
This site is provided by a University of Pennsylvania professor, Alan Filreis, who has studied Stevens extensively. It contains excerpts from Filreis' critical works, texts of several of Stevens' poems, photos, reviews, letters, links to...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Biological Classification: Organization of All Living Things
All living things can be identified by their placement in a biological classification table. Students will investigate the organization of all living things and learn how to classify through the process of classifying their own shoes....
University of Sydney (Australia)
University of Sydney: Structure and Properties of Materials/thermal Physics
An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including thermal expansion). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics. Humor,...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Types of Details: Flashcards
This is a set of interactive flashcards defining words that have to do with details in writing: supporting details, facts, opinion, examples, anecdotes, and statistics.
Curated OER
Structure and Properties of Materials: Thermal Physics
An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including heat of vaporization). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics....
Curated OER
Structure and Properties of Materials: Thermal Physics
An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including heat of vaporization). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics....
Curated OER
Structure and Properties of Materials: Thermal Physics
An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including heat of vaporization). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics....
Curated OER
Structure and Properties of Materials: Thermal Physics
An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including heat of vaporization). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics....
Curated OER
Structure and Properties of Materials: Thermal Physics
An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including heat of vaporization). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics....
Curated OER
Structure and Properties of Materials: Thermal Physics
An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including heat of vaporization). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics....
Curated OER
Structure and Properties of Materials: Thermal Physics
An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including heat of vaporization). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics....
Curated OER
Structure and Properties of Materials: Thermal Physics
An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including heat of vaporization). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics....
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