Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Rules for Fixing Comma Splices
This site targets comma splices and fused sentences. It provides information on how to fix them using conjunctions (both coordinating and subordinating) and puntuation.
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Punctuation Quiz
This site from The Internet TESL Journal provides a multiple-choice quiz questions are designed to test your knowledge of the usage of the various forms of punctuation. Click on the "Answer" to see which is the correct choice.
Other
Grinnell College: The Function of Word Order and Parallel Structure
A fairly simple demonstration of the importance of word order in English sentences, with several examples. Also, a brief explanation of parallel structure, with examples. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style
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Punctuation Mark Rules: The Colon
A fairly comprehensive look at the uses and misuses of the grammatical element "the colon" in English punctuation. Includes information and several examples.
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Writing for Business and Pleasure: Eliminate Wordiness to Write With Power
This how-to site gives writing tips for business writing. Brief explanations are provided for how to revise writing to ensure that redundant pairs, redundant modifiers, redundance categories, meaningless modifiers, and wordy expressions...
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Sandhills Community College: The Colon
A brief lesson on the uses of the colon in English punctuation. Includes examples and links for further information.
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Western Michigan University: Writing Papers of Literary Analysis
Lots of great guidelines and rules for writing a literary analysis essay. Areas covered include organization, content, style, and documentation.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Literary Parodies
This lesson plan deals with imitation as a form of parody in dealing with a writer's unique style. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Bombast
This site from The UVic Writer's Guide provides an excellent description of bombast language. Content includes a literary example.
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online: Uses of the Semicolon and Colon
This writing lab site shows students how to correctly use semicolons and colons in punctuation.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Flow: Shorter to Longer
This lesson discusses improving the flow of writing by progressing from shorter elements to longer elements. W.9-10.3c seq/coherent
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Sentence Variety: Sentence Structure
This slideshow lesson discusses how to use variation in sentence structure to produce more effective writing.
TES Global
Blendspace: Types of Sentences
A nine-part learning module with links to texts, videos, and websites to use while learning about clauses and simple, compound, and complex sentences.
TES Global
Blendspace: Sentence Varying
A seven-part learning module with links to texts and videos about simple, compound, and complex sentences and varying them in their writing.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Report Styles
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are able to interact with the flipchart to review acceptable styles for formatting reports and letters.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Grammar Paragraph
[Free Registration/Login Required] The Objective of this flipchart is to help students to begin to organize stories into paragraphs; and to begin to use paragraphing in presentation of dialogue in stories.
Free Management Library
Guidelines for Formatting Articles, Reports, and Papers
This resource presents rules and guidelines for formatting reports.
University College London
Internet Grammar of English: Introducing Phrases
This entry from an online English-grammar book discusses phrases, the structure of phrases, types of phrases, and provides an exercise for each section. In the top right corner, click on the page numbers 1-5 to follow through the...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: 8th Grade Grammar
This article discusses the grammar usually learned in the 8th grade including more concise and clear writing, speaking, and thinking; how to clearly combine ideas; more comma rules, and parallel structure.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Guide to Grammar and Style: Semicolon
The Guide to Grammar & Style provides this tutorial on two common uses for the semicolon: 1)to separate items in a list after a colon, and 2)to separate two independent clauses in one sentence.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Grammar Logs #127
This page, by the same person who wrote the online "Guide to Grammar and Writing," provides a log of questions and answers about grammar. The first question and answer on this page discuss absolute phrases and how they function in...
Cleveland State University
Cleveland State University: Getting Papers Started
This site from the Cleveland State University suggests using "invention techniques" to focus on a topic, find a controlling idea, and generate examples. Goes on the describe several types of invention techniques.