Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature Course Overview
This lesson focuses on providing an overview of contemporary literature and the writing process. It defines contemporary literature and the key terms of the writing process, and provides links to the Contemporary Literature and...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Polish Tone, Style, and Figurative Language
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn strategies for evaluating and revising the tone, style, and figurative language in an essay. It also includes practice exercises.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn strategies for evaluating the quality of the sentences in an essay and making changes to achieve greater sentence variety and effectiveness.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Writing About Life's Lessons
After reading A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park students complete a writing assignments. The writer first completes a graphic organizer about a life-changing experience or an experience from which a lesson has been learned. The retelling...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety/sentence Combining: Practice 2
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will practice strategies for evaluating and revising sentence variety and for sentence combining in an essay.
Franklin and Marshall College
Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary: The Autobiography Project
Part of a project that culminated in 2006, this site contains great supports for those who are attempting to write about their own lives. Getting started, writing drafts, revising and other topics are all addressed.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto Mississauga: Papers: Expectations, Advice
This site, which provides the expectations and grading criteria for students at the University of Puget Sound, also contains a great deal of helpful advice for student writers in general. The site walks students through the process of...
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Conclusion or Summary
This Grammarly Handbook resource explains the purpose on writing a summary or conclusion of an essay. Brief "how to" tips are provided for writing a summary or conclusion to an essay.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Evidence
This page focuses on the evidence to support points in an essay. Be sure you have enough support for each point and that the points are strong ones. It also suggests you double check both direct and indirect quotations in your paper to...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Parallelism of Details: Practice 3
You will practice strategies for evaluating and revising parallel structure in an essay.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Parallelism of Details: Practice 3
Practice strategies for evaluating and revising parallel structure in an essay.