This lesson discusses the goal of concision in writing. It is 10 of 10 in the series titled "Concise Language."

After reading A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park students complete a writing assignments. The writer first completes a graphic organizer about a life-changing experience or an experience from which a lesson has been learned. The retelling...

Concise instruction on how to get the best results from your proofreading. Suggestions are divided into "Before You Proofread," "When You Proofread," and "When You Want to Learn More." The latter includes links to handouts on writing.

This article focuses on how to help teachers write lesson plans that will aid learners in learning to write clear, concise summaries of movies and literary works.

In an expository essay, a type of informational text, the writer clarifies or explains something by using facts, details, and examples in a clear and concise way. To write an effective expository essay, students need a basic...

This lesson introduces the concept of redundancy in writing. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Concise Language: Avoiding Redundancy."

This lesson introduces the concept of redundancy in writing. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Concise Language: Avoiding Redundancy."

This lesson goes over removing obvious information. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Concise Language: Stating the Obvious."

This lesson introduces the concept of redundancy in writing.

This lesson discusses limiting the use of elevated language in writing.

This lesson goes over how to reduce wordiness in writing.

This page features a list of ten principles that lead to writing clearly and concisely, such as avoiding unnecessary words, writing like you talk, writing to express and not to impress, and the like. It also discusses "fog indexes" to...

Using music, video and readings, learners will explore their views of the American Dream, and use this information to create "Animoto" videos that express a personal opinion or take on the dream. Students will develop and support their...

Create your own storyboard with this interactive tool. The storyboard framework is a graphic organizer that helps structure students work into a linear and concise story. Although it feels easy at first, breaking down ones thoughts into...

This page focuses on reducing wordiness in writing by using more concise language, and avoiding extra-long words and sentences.

A clear, concise explanation of adjectives, including some tricky usages, how to order adjectives in a sentence, and some idiomatic uses of prepositions with -ed participles. The emphasis is on HOW adjectives are used more than on WHY...

This article focuses on writing a one-minute persuasive speech force students to be clear and concise and to hone debate skills. From there it suggests the use of improvisation speeches.

This article by Craig Brewer focuses on how to write an abstract and paper for an academic conference.

This page focuses on the need for clear and concise language when writing.

This video lesson focuses on removing nominalizations (long nouns made by adding suffixes to verbs, nouns, and adjectives) from your writing to make your sentences live instead of being a part of the living dead. Nominalizations impede...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn to write an expository essay by providing evidence that supports a thesis, articulating concepts and information correctly and concisely, understanding the...

Comic frames are traditionally used to illustrate a story in a short, concise format. For this lesson, young scholars use a six-paneled comic strip frame to create a story map, summarizing a book or story that they have read. Each panel...

This site shows how to repair run-on sentences. Students and teachers will find this interactive resource helpful.

Written by a college professor, this site discusses five areas for students to work on to improve their writing. The areas are Thesis, Research, Close Reading, Style, and Mechanics. The author is clear and concise in his advice, and...