Information about writing a research essay including: generating a topic, generating a thesis, research, and more.

A diagram is provided to help students organize an argument. Assertions, sub-assertions, evidence, and counterarguments are included. Click on page 2 at the bottom to see the functions of the above and page 3 to for a practice activity....

Tips on planning for the essay once the thesis has been formulated. Use the links on the right for other parts of the writing process. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.5

Click through lessons on conventions that can cause problems in an essay including tenses, titles, and names. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.1

Click through an overview of how to structure an essay, including the introduction, body, and conclusion. Use the list on the right side to learn all of the elements of an essay.

Full text to Frederick Douglass's essay "The Future of the Colored Race."

The IDEA Debatabase is designed to help high school and college level debaters by providing both pro and con arguments for hundreds of debate topics. These arguments have been prepared by experts in debate, both debaters and judges....

A detailed essay describing an incident having to do with the sermons of Samuel Hemphill within the Philadelphia Presbyterian Church in 1734. Benjamin Franklin supported Hemphill.

Information about the research process including: reference works, bibliography, online and card catalogs, evaluating sources, taking notes, integrating source material into the essay, editing, proofreading, citations, quotations, and more.

Essay discussing Manifest Destiny and divine providence in westward expansion. Questions for student writing and discussion, scholars debate and links to related resources.

ThisNation site provides the full text of James Russell Lowell's "Abraham Lincoln". This is a printer friendly version!