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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina Writing Center Handouts: Reorganizing Drafts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
One step you might want to take in revising a draft is to examine the organization of your paper and decide if and how the organization needs to be adjusted. This handout offers five strategies for examining and reorganizing your draft....
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Process: Drafting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on drafting including making an outline and writing a draft from it, the crappy first draft, writing, revising, rewriting, and time management. W.9-10.5 Writing Process
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Digital History

Digital History: Completing a Final Draft

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the committee that produced a final draft of the Constitution to present to the entire Constitutional Convention. Find out what the delegates to the convention kept in the final draft and what they changed.
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SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: The Research Paper in Progress

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Follow a student reasearch paper from prewriting to drafting to final copy, and read the student tutor's comments along the way. This site provides links through several successive pages.
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Digital History

Digital History: Drafting the Constitution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Those writing the Constitution had many issues to deal with in forming a document to govern the country. One thorny issue was the status of the states in regard to representation in the federal legislature. Read about the Virginia Plan...
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Other

Computer Aided Design and Drafting Section

For Students 9th - 10th
This site includes many links under these categories: Organizations associated with CAD, CAD Research and Artificial Intelligence Links, CAD Directories, Gateways and News Centers, Important CAD Review Resources, CAD magazines, journals...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Bizarre Foods With Ralph Fletcher: A Narrative Revision Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this instructional activity, Ralph Fletcher's writing style is introduced to student writers. Students will write a rough draft about a time they ate, or a time when they saw someone else eat, something unusual. Then students will...
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Other

Write Express: How to Write a Descriptive Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website focuses on how to write a descriptive essay including identifying subject, purpose, incorporating sensory images, and quick tips for planning, drafting, and revising the essay. It also provides links to related articles.
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Ibis Communications

Eyewitness to History: Writing the Declaration of Independence

For Students 9th - 10th
An article about the Declaration of Independence which covers the selection of the Committee of Five, Jefferson's writing, the presentation to Congress for approval, the problems in drafting, and the final changes which were made....
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Organizing a Story With Purposeful Paragraphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students organize and design a narrative based on three developing ideas.
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Other

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant: Occasions for Thesis/support Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The basic thesis/support pattern promotes clear, systematic thinking on a single subject and can, therefore, be helpful whenever you want to set forth ideas and facts in an efficient, orderly way.
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US National Archives

Nara: Treasures of Congress: The First Congress the Bill of Rights

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Visit The National Archives & Records Administration's website on the Bill of Rights. The site gives some background information on the drafting of the Bill of Rights, lets you view the text to the document, lets you view an image of...
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PBS

Pbs News Hour: Constitutional Amendments and Gay Marriage

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students examine and debate the issue of same sex marriage by studying background information, news articles, legal arguments and the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. They then draft an amendment of their own to...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: A New System of Government 1776 1826

For Students 9th - 10th
This module examines America's efforts to form a new government after the War for Independence and to draft the Constitution. Includes an interactive activity comparing Thomas Jefferson's and Alexander Hamilton's visions for America, a...
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Library of Congress

Loc: The United States Constitution

For Students 9th - 10th
See transcripts of the debates of the Federal Convention of 1787, the draft of the Constitution, or see the facsimiles of the original documents. Trace the progress of the Constitution using the historical documents themselves.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: On Track English I Writing: Editing

For Students 1st - 9th Standards
This site offers links to each section of Writing, Module 8, Lessons 1-9 and Practices 1-3. Students write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their compositions; spell correctly; and edit drafts for...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing a Short Story With Interesting and Believable Characters

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that teaches students about writing a short story with believable characters in six mini-lessons: Introduction, Imagine 3-D Characters, Show and Tell, Build Your Main Character Read about a Main Character, and Draft...
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century Teaching Resources: Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In these activities, students will use manuscript drafts, notebooks, and essays to study Woolf's experimentation with form and use of language during the lengthy process of composition. They will also consider the work in the context of...
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century Teaching Resources: Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In these activities, learners will consider Ted Hughes as a poet and a person, as well as some of the literary and personal influences on his writing. They will explore some of his poems in the draft and published form, exploring the...
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century Teaching Resources: Angela Carter's Wise Children

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In these activities, students will focus on a wealth of drafting material and writer's notebooks to reveal how Angela Carter created her final comic novel, "Wise Children". They will closely examine fascinating source documents and...
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century: Angela Carter's the Bloody Chamber

For Teachers 9th - 10th
These activities offer students a unique opportunity to examine how a writer crafts a narrative. By exploring many of Angela Carter's early drafts, students will uncover how she created her ground-breaking short story collection, "The...
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Colorado State University

Colorado State Writing Center: Reviewing and Revising an Argument

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An excellent guide to help the writer review a composition to see if their position has been fully supported by evidence and to analyze the perspective of the anticipated audience. Follow the links on the right to access all of the...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Revise and Revisit: Butterflies

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will take a previously created paragraph and edit it to make it better by adding details, definitions, a topic sentence, or a closure to an informational paragraph. Resources include a PowerPoint presentation and pictures and...
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Revision in Business Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Persuades the reader of the importance of revision, and outlines the process of good revision: language, tone, organization, and correctness.

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