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Harvard University

Harvard University: Strategies for Essay Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website provides a series of links to detailed information about each segment of how to write an academic essay from how to read the assignment to the final edits. Use the links to the right. W.9-10.1a claims/intro/org, W.9-10.2a...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: How to Read and Analyze an Essay (English Iii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson's activities, you will determine the purpose of description, narration, and exposition essays, analyze their literary devices, and examine text features. You...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Comparison and Contrast Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the comparison and contrast essays; it defines new terms: compare/contrast essay, yin/yang Venn diagram, block comparison, and point by point comparison. It also provides a slideshow which defines and discusses the...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Polishing Tone, Style, and Vocabulary in Your Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn revision strategies you can use to polish your essay's style, tone, and vocabulary. W.11-12.1d Tone/Style, W.11-12.1e Tone/Style
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Argumentative Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on argumentative essays, longer writings on a well-researched topic with the writer arguing one side of the topic, free of fallacies, and providing several claims. A short YouTube clip of Monty Python shows the...
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Other

Image and Impact: An Essay by Einstein: The World as I See It

For Students 9th - 10th
Einstein's ideals are presented in his own words. Presents a philosophical essay about his core values.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway:revising Expository/procedural Essay:rhetorical Device/transitions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that it contains appropriate rhetorical devices and transitions.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising Expository/procedural Essay: Introduction and Conclusion

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for revising an essay so that it contains an effective introduction, conclusion, and controlling idea or thesis.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising Expository/procedural Essay: Purpose, Audience, Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Find out strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that it is organized appropriate to purpose, audience, and context.
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SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Essay Writing Workshop

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site by Empire State College explains the entire process of essay writing. It begins by defining what an essay is and continues then through the entire process, from prewriting to gathering information to shaping information to...
Article
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: How to Write Better Essays: 5 Concepts You Must Master

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This blog article discusses essay writing including thesis development, strong form, style, conventions, and support and references.
Study Guide
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Using Khan Academy's Sat Essay Practice

For Students 9th - 10th
Here's a quick guide to how to improve your essay-writing on Official SAT Practice.
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Other

Expressive Essay: The Use of Psychodrama as Therapy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A well-written example of an expressive essay. Deals with drama as a means of therapy for deaf patients. An excellent model of expression in essay-writing.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Advantages/disadvantages Essay

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This four-page essay provides an example of an advantages/disadvantages essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Problem Solution Essay

For Students 9th - 10th
This five-page essay provides an example of a Problem-Solution Essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: The Crucible: Final Assessment Essay

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on writing a critical analysis essay over The Crucible by Arthur Miller. It features information about writing the introduction, body, and conclusion; a list of topics to choose from, and the essay requirements. Links...
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Writing Essays for Exams

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This handout provides a comprehensive look at writing essays for exams including what a well-written answer to an essay exam question includes, a step-by-step decription of how to write an effective essay exam, an explanation of patterns...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Cause and Effect Essay Example 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This nine-page essay provides a written example of a cause and effect essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: "How to Write a Literary Analysis Essay" [Pdf]

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
This is a nine-page PDF entitled "How to Write a Literary Analysis Essay" which explains in detail the parts of a literary analysis and how to write them.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Sat Essay: Analyzing a Passage

For Students 9th - 10th
In this article, we will review a sample SAT Essay and give you some ideas of how you can approach writing a response to the prompt.
Study Guide
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Unpacking the Sat Essay Prompt

For Students 9th - 10th
The words in the SAT Essay Prompt have been chosen very carefully. What do they all mean? This article provides a detailed analysis of the SAT Essay task.
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Other

Glendale College: Structure of the Five Paragraph Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website from the Glendale Community College shows the structure of five paragraph essays and the elements within the paragraphs (motivator, thesis sentence, topic sentence, specific support, reworded thesis, clincher). Gives...
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Other

Livingston: Basic Guide to Essay Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial lists and discusses the steps to writing a good essay and provides a downloadable guide. It also allows you to view a sample essay. W.11-12.2a Intro/Format
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Research Essay for the Turn of the Screw

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This PDF lesson plan is for students to write a 5-7 page essay which uses research to support their stance on a topic. For this essay, the students will argue whether they believe the character of the Governess, from Henry James' The...

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