This online writing assistance offers help in the writing process, grammar and mechanics, usage, and four different types of essays, as well as help on deciding what and how to document.

This lesson focuses on improving students' persuasive writing skills. Students reseach baseball and then write a persuasive essay to convince the baseball coach that a trip the Baseball Hall in Fame would be beneficial to the members of...

This tutorial focuses on argumentative and persuasive writing: it lists and defines the components of arguments, provides a flow chart for argumentative writing, defines counterarguments, and lists the 3 elements of persuasion: ethos,...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay organized appropriate to purpose, audience, and context.

This strategy helps students prepare and organize thoughts about text, develop a written response in the form of a short or extended response, and use standard English grammar, usage, and conventions in writing.

Links to 12 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.1a: Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons.

This is a great math writing assignment. First, learners learn about the patterns and shapes of polynomial equations and their inverses by making their bodies imitate mathematical concepts, using popular disco & 80's dance moves....

This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) explains how to organize information in an argumentative essay. Several examples are provided to show how each piece of evidence is elaborated.

Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing writing in the science classroom straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you take part in this interactive lesson tutorial.

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.

Tips on organizing ideas in an essay.

Sections of this site include key features of the comparison essay, comparisons in daily life, formulating a thesis, preparing to write, and organizing a comparison essay. The site also includes a paragraph of caution when writing about...

Using "Science Times" at NewYorkTimes.com, students will listen to podcasts to learn about and share science ideas that are currently in the news. By organizing and summarizing science thoughts, students will be able to effectively share...

This PDF lesson, POWER PARAGRAPH, focuses on analysis and will also help students to understand structure in a paragraph. The "power" concept teaches the students to organize their sentences according to different levels of importance....

The first page in a series of handouts addressing how to organize various report formats. Developed for engineers but useful across disciplines.

How can we use questioning to create lead sentences and details in order to create a purposeful paragraph? This PDF lesson offers an organization technique that asks students to pre-plan paragraphs by brainstorming interesting questions...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will be taking a look at how authors of informational texts, such as expository texts, organize their writing and the effects that organization can have...

In this lesson, third through fifth graders learn to organize their writing to form a cohesive paragraph. They began by making an art project such as a drawing; then they write sentences describing their art, and write an organized...

In this lab, students will learn to organize and present data in a visual way so that they can then summarize in writing their conclusions about the relationships between the data.

Early learners can build their math communication skills with these "Real-world," writing and problem solving activities. Students focus on developing strategies for using math vocabulary and writing about math.

This lesson will help prepare students to first form an opinion and then provide a correctly written response. Students organize their thoughts, agree or disagree, define the problem, support opinion, and conclude in 3-5 sentences. This...

An outline for designing an effective speech is provided on this site. Steps included in the outline consist of the following: planning to write the speech; preparing to present the speech; and delivery of the speech. SL.9-10.1a...

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...

This entry focuses on using analysis to interpret primary resources; it provides methods and examples of analysis. W.9-10.10 Write Routinely