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Millcrest Academy: Rhyme Scheme
This page lists and defines many poetic terms commonly associated with rhyme and rhyme scheme. Unfortunately, there are no examples given. The list includes the following: anapestic meter, blank verse, couplet, dactylic meter, end rhyme,...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Process: Finding Evidence
This lesson focuses on finding evidence to support your thesis, how to incorporate your findings into your own work, and how to effectively quote, paraphrase, and summarize your information. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.9, W.11-12.1b...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Critical Reading: Summary Skills
This lesson focuses on how to write a summary including strategies for annotation, paraphrasing the thesis statement, distinguishing major ideas from minor ones, and picking appropriate quotes. It also provides videos including "How to...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Using Sources: Bringing Sources Into the Conversation
This lesson focuses on identifying the five components of the "source sandwich:" transition and introduction; a signal phrase; quotation, paraphrase, or summary; citation, and explanation of material's relevance. A practice exercise is...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Using Sources: Putting It Together: Using Sources
This is a summary of the lessons on integrating credible sources using paraphrase, summary, and quotations and citing sources. Click on the Next button on the bottom right to learn about Why It Matters: Multimodality; you will have the...
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Morningside Center: Active Listening
In this instructional activity, students practice active listening by paraphrasing what they hear. Students will practice listening to one another and repeating what they heard. Various listening activities are included in this...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Copyright Laws and What They Mean to You
This lesson teaches an overview of copyright laws and the consequences of plagiarism. Young scholars practice paraphrasing short passages and identifying instances of plagiarism.
W. W. Norton
W.w. Norton & Company: Paraphrase, Summary, Description: Summary
An explanation of a summary and how to write one effectively.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Paraphrasing Timbuktu
This video segment from Religion and Ethics Newsweekly features the ancient city of Timbuktu, once a thriving center of learning and trade.
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin: Writing Center: Writing a Research Report
Learn how to write research papers. Includes an eight-step writing handout, information on quoting and paraphrasing, and tips for writing annotated bibliographies. Click on the side links to access some of these resources.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Research Building Blocks: Notes, Quotes, and Fact Fragments
Contains plans for a lesson on taking notes that is part of a larger unit on researching a state symbol. It works on skills like figuring out what information is relevant and irrelevant, using a variety of sources, and paraphrasing. In...
Indiana University
Indiana University: Plagiarism
Uses examples to explain the right and wrong way to use reference material. Shows how a rewrite can still be plagiarism. Briefly discusses common knowledge and paraphrasing.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: The Clarifying Routine: Elaborating Vocabulary Instruction
The more a new vocabulary word is associated with ideas from students' own experience, the more likely the word will become well 'networked' and a permanent part of memory. Making these links involves elaborating definitions of new...
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University of Hong Kong: Identifying & Avoiding Plagiarism
This interactive exercise allows students to judge for themselves what is plagiarized and what is not. Could be used independently or as a class activity.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing About Literature
Purdue University's Writing Lab offers some hints and tips for writing about literature, including how to construct a thesis and how to handle secondary material.
TES Global
Blendspace: Verbs and Quotes
A ten-part learning module. The first six lessons include links to videos, a worksheet, a word list, notes, and a learning game on verbs. The last four lessons include links to videos and information on paraphrasing, citing, summarizing...
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Gallaudet University: English Works: How to Avoid Plagiarism
Plagiarism can cause you unnecessary problems. Review these simple suggestions on how to avoid plagiarism. Examples and rules help you give credit to the author.
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Unbc: Research Papers: The Steps [Pdf]
This document provides information on various aspects of writing a research paper. This specific document outlines the steps in writing a research paper. This document is a PDF and requires Adobe Reader.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Shakespeare: Sonnets
This lesson focuses on Shakespeare's sonnets; it features three sonnets: Sonnet 29, 116, and 130 and provides links to a modern paraphrase/analysis of each. It also offers an audio of Alan Rickman reading Sonnet 130. Students are to...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature Course Overview: Plagiarism
This lesson focuses on understanding and avoiding plagiarism by properly paraphrasing, using quotes when appropriate, using in-text citatation, and a Works Cited Page. It provides links to a plagiarism discussion rubric and the...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Nonfiction and Research: The Research Process: Notetaking
This lesson focuses on taking notes for your research project. It explains what to included in your notes and how to write them. It offers a link to The Quality Writing Center: "Creating and Using Outlines" and Study Guides and...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Avoiding Plagiarism
Plagiarism is a serious offense in many educational settings. Plagiarism and copyright laws are reviewed here. Activities to avoid plagiarism are also provided through links. W.9-10.8 Sources, W.11-12.8 Sources/Integrate/Cite;...
Indiana University
Indiana University: How to Recognize Plagiarism: Tutorials and Tests
This site from the Indiana University provides an excellent set of tutorials on plagiarism, designed for university or advanced secondary students. After completing the tutorials, students may register to take a free certification test...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Commentary on Quotations From Text in an Interpretive Response
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to include quotations from a text and commentary on those quotations.
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