Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Organization Appropriate to Purpose, Audience, and Context
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay that is organized appropriate to audience, purpose, and context.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Effective Introduction and Conclusion Sentence Structure Variety
Write effective introductions and conclusions with a controlling idea or thesis, using a variety of sentence patterns.
Other
Canadaone.com: Sailing the Seven Cs of Effective Writing
Interesting article from Canadaone.com that outlines the author's seven C's of effective writing. Each of the concepts (all beginning with the letter "C") includes an explanation that demonstrates why the concept is important to the...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Outlining
This website focuses on students the importance of having of outlining; it offers links to the discussion of four outlining concepts: Reasons for outlining, the Preparation outline, the Speaking outline, and the Rough Draft outline.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Communication: The Writing Process
The learner will identify the three steps: prewriting, drafting, revising/editing, in the writing process and the elements in each step. W.9-10.5 Writing Process, W.11-12.5 Writing Process
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Writing a Sentence Outline
In this learning module, students will learn how to write a sentence outline and then practice filling out an outline and writing their own outline for a speech.
Other
University of Missouri Rolla: Purposes in Writing
What are purposes in writing? Use this site from the University of Missouri-Rolla to learn more about the parts of the communication model. W.9-10.10 Write Routinely
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Toefl Practice Site: Coherence and Unity
This site discusses coherence achieved through major and minor connector transitions. Examples are given, and there is a link to an exercise meant for the particular class this site was designed for, still useful practice for anyone....
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Organization Appropriate to Purpose, Audience, and Context
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson will teach you how to write and organize an essay so that it addresses different purposes, different audiences, and different contexts.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Developing the Central Idea
What do you want your audience to remember the most about the topic of your speech? This is will be your central idea and it can be boiled down to one sentence! Follow these guidelines for writing a concise central idea and then practice...
Other
Friends University: Patterns of Organization and Their Clue Words [Pdf]
Chart lists patterns of organization with their corresponding clue words.
Other
Tidewater Community College: Writing Center: Organizing Paragraphs and Essays
This page gives a quick, but thorough look at a few good ways to organize a piece of writing.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: What a Pest
Students are asked to identify issues related to integrated pest management and how they affect the environment.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Raft Writing
RAFT is a writing strategy that helps students understand their role as a writer, the audience they will address, the varied formats for writing, and the topic they'll be writing about. By using this strategy, teachers encourage students...
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Writing Essays: The Length of the Introduction
This writing tutorial teaches you the proper length of an introductory paragraph.
ACT360 Media
Sequence Paragraphs
Here are a few brief hints and key words to use when organizing a piece of writing by sequence or time.
Other
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.
Other
Realty Times: Open Your Mouth and Say Success!
This site presents two unique approaches to planning a speech for its best impact. It also includes tips for outlining a speech.
Other
Writing the in Class Essay
Key elements to consider in writing an essay. The process, time saving strategies, revising and proofreading are outlined and discussed.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Start With an Outline
This site from the University of Ottawa provides a brief, but effective, explanation of how to use a sentence outline to organize and shape your paper.
Other
Grammar book.com: Effective Writing
Brief list from The Blue Book with examples of how to take ineffective writing and transforming it into effective writing.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Revising for a Different Audience [Pdf]
An activity where students are asked to write for a specific audience. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.5 Develop and strengthen writing
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Writing Essays: Introductions
This site provides a brief overview of introductions, exploring what they are supposed to mean for an essay in writing.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Lesson Plan: Audience, Purpose, Language in Electronic Messages
Lesson plan considers changes in writing style since the inception of e-mail and text messaging.