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Planning Your Essay |
| Graphic
Organizers, Pre-Writing Ideas, and Essay Writing Resources
The first two links under
Graphic Organizers will show you how to organize your ideas
before writing. |
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Workshops with videos for Developing Writers
This series of 8 video workshops is resented by the Annenberg Foundation
and focuses on First Steps, Audience, Purpose, Usage and
mechanics, etc. It's an excellent site for teachers and
students. |
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The Writing Process Check the two
links: Prewriting, Writing, Revising | Paraphrasing,
Quoting, and Avoiding Plagiarism. |
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A
Student's Guide to the Presentation of Essays
From the University of Calgary, lessons on
formatting essays , using quotations, documenting sources and
other helpful tips for essay writing. |
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Different Kinds of Essays and How to Write
Them |
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A Skills and Style Handbook for Writing Essays
A fantastic site for the stages of the writing
process. |
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Guide to Writing Different Types of Essays
This site includes information on how to
write eight different types
of essays. |
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Types of Essays with Student Samples
Also includes preparation tips for writing timed
essays. |
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Types
of Essays Literacy Education
Online site |
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Writer's Den
Essays on Many Academic Topics
Excellent essays on History, Nature, Science, Canada, and
Lifestyle. All have instructive paragraph
notes/outlines so that you can see how the essay was developed. |
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Writer's Den Essay Index Useful notes
on Parts of an Essay, How to Write an Essay, and
Kinds of Essays. |
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A Guide to Writing a Basic Essay Links
on Topic | Outline | Thesis | Body |
Introduction | Conclusion |
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OWL Tips on Essay Writing |
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Two ways to write Comparison/Contrast Essays |
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A Guide to Writing a Classification Essay |
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Transitional Words and Phrases A list
of transitional words and phrases categorized by meaning. Also
note the Handbook Index menu on the left for other useful
writing topics. (University of Wisconsin Writing Center) |
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Ann Thistlethwaite's class page for ESL 312
Contains a long list of exercises practical for
high-intermediate writers. |
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Proofreading, Editing, and Revision |
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The Edit Grid The edit grid from
San
Jose
Writes
categorizes the common errors ESL writers make.
Click the teacher icons for explanations and interactive
practice with the topics listed. |
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Proofreading Strategies A complete guide for revision and editing
strategies. |
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Editing and Proofreading Strategies for Sentence Level Errors
Literacy Education Online Site |
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Peer Edit with Perfection Tutorial |
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Rules
for Using Quotation Marks |
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Using Quotations and Dialogue |
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Plagiarism.org Learn to avoid plagiarism in all of its
forms. |
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Grammar Study |
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MyEnglishLab Login page for students
enrolled in MyEnglishLab for Understanding
and Using English Grammar. |
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Destinations 2 Companion web site for the textbook. |
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OWL
Complete Index by Topic
A complete index of OWL links organized by
topic for writing, punctuation, sentence construction, parts of
speech, and ESL links |
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Commnet's Complete Index of Grammar Topics |
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NorthStar High Intermediate Writing Text Select
the resource you need to review in the table on the left. |
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SPELLING LINKS |
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Spelling
Lessons - a great
interactive site with five levels of spelling activities. |
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ESL
Station ESL
310 Series |
ESL 312 ~ LINKS FOR WRITING IMPROVEMENT