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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Parallelism (English Ii Writing)

For Students 10th - 12th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Counterarguments Based on Evidence

For Students 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising counterarguments that anticipate objections in an essay.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Relevant Information and Valid Inferences (English I Writing)

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 relevant information and valid inferences.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Evaluating and Revising a Thesis: Practice 1 (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Evaluate the strength of a thesis in an essay and revise it if necessary.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising the organization of an essay, including purpose, audience, and context.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: General Writing Resources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This helpful resource details the process of writing, including how to plan, write, and revise. Content also includes the different types or genres of writing, and exercises in grammar and mechanics.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Parallelism of Details (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.
Handout
BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Formal Tone in a Discursive Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page provides several tips for using formal tone in an essay. The tips are arranged into 'Do' and 'Do not use' categories.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and combining sentences to create sentence variety when you revise an essay.
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BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Discursive Essay

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
As part of a revision and writing section of BBC Bitesize, this site provides an example of a discursive essay and includes five questions and answers related to the essay.
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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...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Parallelism of Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.
Handout
Other

Hamilton College: Guidelines for Writing an Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource presents many guidelines here that will be helpful as you write your first draft. Click on the topic you want to know more about and the guidelines will load.
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BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Planning a Discursive Essay

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
As part of a revision and writing section of BBC Bitesize, this site goes over several tips involved with the planning part of the writing process. The tips are arranged in the form of a plan to follow.
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BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Discursive (Analytical) Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Short tutorial about discursive, or analytical, writing from a Scottish Standard Grade examination preparation site. Contains seven pages of information about the following: organising, essay examples, finding information, planning,...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Rhetorical Devices and Transitions (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising rhetorical devices and transitions in an essay.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Polish Tone, Style, and Figurative Language (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising the tone, style, and figurative language in an essay. W.9-10.1d & W.9-10.2e Style/tone/conv
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W. W. Norton

W.w. Norton&company:the Writing Process: Conventions That Can Cause Problems

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Click through lessons on conventions that can cause problems in an essay including tenses, titles, and names. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.1
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Polish Tone, Style, and Figurative Language (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will learn strategies for evaluating and revising the tone, style, and figurative language in an essay.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining

For Students 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and combining sentences to create sentence variety when you revise an essay.
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Other

Writing the in Class Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Key elements to consider in writing an essay. The process, time saving strategies, revising and proofreading are outlined and discussed.
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University of Sydney (Australia)

University of Sydney: Module 3 Unit 1: Planning Your Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This unit index contains links with to guide students through the process of planning a multi-paragraph argumentative essay. Students will learn how to interpret the essay question, develop a writing plan, thesis, writing the argument,...
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BBC

Bbc Bitesize: Introducing a Discursive Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
As part of a revision and writing section of BBC Bitesize, this site goes over several tips relating to writing the introduction of a discursive essay. Five separate methods are described, including provocative, balanced, illustration,...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Relevant Information and Valid Inferences (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] An inference is a guess based on the information within a situation. It is valid if the guess is logical. This lesson teaches you how to check a completed draft for relevant...