Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Rhetorical Devices and Transitions (English Ii Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay using effective rhetorical devices and transitions.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Elementary School Transition Words and Phrases
This article focuses on transition words and phrases including how to explain them to children and providing lists of transition words and phrases by types such as Time and Sequence, Cause and Effect, and Conclusion. It also provides a...
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Transition Metals, Alloys and Corrosion
The transition metals are placed in the center of the periodic table, between groups 2 and 3. They are generally hard and dense, and less reactive than the alkali metals. Iron, copper, silver and gold are important transition metals. A...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Rhetorical Devices and Transitions
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay using effective rhetorical devices and transitions.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Process: Organizing
This lesson focuses on the organization of your paper including how to write a thesis statement, the elements of an effective paragraph, patterns of organization, transitions, and conclusions. It also provides a video of the Toulmin...
Other
English Made in Brazil: Writing English Correctly
A very useful page from English Made in Brazil designed to help Portuguese English language learners write better in English. Subject placement, objectivity, brevity, and words of transition are some of the points discussed. Great examples.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Revision Techniques: Improving Flow
A ten-slide presentation explaining revision strategies that focus on improving the flow of a written text.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Writing Letters
The students will learn how to form a proper letter. They will be able to remove key ideas/details from a text and apply it to their writing. They will also be able to incorporate transition and descriptive words into their writing.
Other
Essay Transition Words: Compare and Contrast Transition Words
This reference page focuses on compare and contrast transition words including defining transitions and compare and contrast transitions, providing a list of transition words, and showing how to use transitions in writing essays.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Five Transition Adventure Planner
In this lesson, students will use transition words and phrases to shift from one idea to another within a story.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of a Composition
Writing a Paper? Here at the Capital Community College is everything you could ever ask for while preparing your essay. This site includes the writing process, structure, thesis statement, transitions, the computer as a writing...
Get It Write
Get It Write: "Sit" and "Set"
Learn something about the conjugation of verbs and transitive and intransitive verbs in this discussion about the meaning of "sit" and "set." This tutorial will teach you how to use these words correctly. A brief quiz checks your...
Get It Write
Get It Write: Lie and Lay
Learn the difference between "lie" and "lay" in this tutorial. You'll also find out about transitive and intransitive verbs, so you'll be able to think through which form of "lie" or "lay" to use. A brief quiz checks your understanding.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Nonfiction: Comparison/contrast Writing
This lesson focuses on how to write a nonfiction comparison/contrast paper including the reasons for writing them and the three organizational strategies. It features links to transition words, graphic organizers, Venn diagrams,...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing Essays for Exams
This handout provides a comprehensive look at writing essays for exams including what a well-written answer to an essay exam question includes, a step-by-step decription of how to write an effective essay exam, an explanation of patterns...
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Writing Paragraphs
This site from the University of Ottawa provides a wonderfully designed website that not only gives you exhaustive information on paragraph writing. Students will engage in starting with outlines, writing topic sentences, dividing their...
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin: Writing Center: Using Semicolons
A writing tutorial for the correct use of semicolons to link two independent clauses, clauses with commas, clauses connected by conjunctive adverbs or transitional phrases, and to link lists where the items contain commas. Examples and...
Other
Analog to Digital: Why and How to Teach Students to Write for an Online Audience
This article discusses the importance of teaching students how to write for an online audience using traditional writing skills but transitioning these to digital media. The author talks about ways to incorporate social media and...
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Writing the Ged Essay Using Transitional Words
A critical part of the writing process is using transitional words and phrases to let the reader know when a change is coming. Learn more about how to use transitions and acquaint yourself with examples of transitional words.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Chronological Transition Words
This slideshow lesson focuses on chronological transition words; it defines and lists the categories of transition words. It defines chronological transition words, states their purpose, provides a list of them, and shows how to write...
TES Global
Blendspace: Expository Writing Using Transitions
A seven-part learning module on using transitions in expository writing. Lessons include text, images, a video, and a writing prompt.
Towson University
Towson University: Distinguish Between Transitive, Intransitive Verbs Exercise 1
This is a 10-question, self-grading practice/quiz on distinguishing between transitive and intransitive verbs.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Exercise 4
This is a 10-question, self-grading quiz/exercise over Transitive and Intransitive Verbs.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Exercise 5
This is a 10-question, self-grading quiz/exercise over Transitive and Intransitive Verbs.