Purdue University Owl: Genre and the Research Paper

Have your class explore the effects of war by reading Eleanor Coerr's story, "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes." This is a story about a sixth grader who lives in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb is dropped. Learners answer questions,...

Considering a research paper for freshman and sophomores? Here's a template designed to meet the W.9-10.7 and 8 Common Core writing standards. Writers outline their research question, claims, counterarguments, support, commentary, and...

Much like the methods of group work, the writers of the Federalist Papers worked together to advocate for their viewpoints against the anti-federalists. The resource enables learners to break into small groups and conduct research before...

This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides information related to writing a research paper. This guide explains to write a conclusions section.

This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with placing commas in sentences that have nonessential elements in them.

This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with adding commas to introductory phrases in sentences.

This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with punctuating sentences.

This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with identifying sentence fragments and then fixing them.

This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice related to quantity terms when they appear with count and noncount nouns.

This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with subject and verb agreement.