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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strategies for Revising: Practice 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will review the different types of clauses and sentences. You will also use editing strategies to help you add variety to your sentences. A step-by-step...
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City University of New York

College of Staten Island Library: How to Write an Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Resource defines what an essay is, the parts of an essay and their functions, and also discusses the editing process and how important it is to check a draft for completeness and high quality. Includes a link to an online guide to citing...
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Cambridge Rindge & Latin School

Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Writing the Body of a Research Paper

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An excellent tip sheet on how to write and create the bulk of a research paper: the body includes in-depth information, examples, as well as links to earlier steps in the process such as thesis statements, notecards, outline,...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Project Narration

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers for narrative writing. Students will be able to prewrite and draft their narrative writings more efficiently by using these tools.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century Teaching Resources: Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In these activities, students will use manuscript drafts, notebooks, and essays to study Woolf's experimentation with form and use of language during the lengthy process of composition. They will also consider the work in the context of...
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto Mississauga: Papers: Expectations, Advice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Iste Nets: Birthstone Project With a Multimedia Twist

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This interdisciplinary project on birthstones, provided by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), focuses on research skills, writing skills, and the ability to put together an electronic presentation.