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The 6+1 Traits of Effective Writing (PDF)
Teachers have discovered that writing (student or otherwise) was influenced by the same six characteristics: ideas (details, development, focus), organization (internal structure) voice (tone, style, purpose, and audience), word choice (precise language and phrasing), sentence fluency (correctness, rhythm, and cadence), and conventions (mechanical correctness).
College Application Essays: Columns and Sample Essays
First published by the Minneapolis Star Tribune: November 17, 2000 by Dr. Stephen Wilbers.
Essays
All about the art of writing and publishing essays from Tips-O-Matic.
Five elements of effective communication: A checklist
An invaluable list by Dr. Stephen Wilbers.
Good Writing for Good Results: A Brief Guide for Busy Administrators
The advice given here is helpful for students, also. By Dr. Stephen Wilbers.
Guide to Grammar and Writing
Paragraph Level will provide you with excellent writing process information and lessons.
Guide to Writing a Basic Essay
Well written site on how to write a basic essay
If I Were a Carpenter: The Tools of a Writer
ROY PETER CLARK is Senior Scholar at The Poynter Institute, and director of the National Writers' Workshop. He presented this list of writing tools at the Orange County Writers' Workshop. Published on the web with permission of the author.
Introducing Plain Language
We all need to be good communicators. Plain language writing is an approach to writing that helps us make our writing clear and simple and more accessible to readers.
The Maple Woods Online Writing Center
Excellent handouts on a variety of writing topics, including prewriting techniques, sensory details, thesis statements, and common essay organizational patterns
Online Technical Writing: Power-Revision Techniques--Structure-Level Revision
For lack of a better phrase, "structure-level revision" refers to the techniques you can use to improve the content of a document, make it better organized, and facilitate readers' ability to follow and understand it.
Outline of a Five-Paragraph Essay
Interactive site that students will enjoy
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
Discovering what to write, organizing your writing, revising, editing, writing informal essays, writing thesis/support essays, writing exploratory essays, writing argumentative essays, documenting your sources
Paragraph a Week: A Yearly Writing Program
Paragraph a Week is a yearly writing program designed to give fifth- and sixth-graders practice with writing various types of paragraphs.
Purdue Online Writing Lab
This site includes, among other things, handouts for students and teachers about general writing concerns (the writing process), English as a Second Languagem grammar, spelling, and punctuation, research and documenting sources, professional writing, and writing across the curriculum.
Rensselaer Writing Center Handouts
Handouts on citation styles, types of writing and styles of writing will be very useful for high school teachers.
WriteExpress
Learn how you can build your own letters with step-by-step instructions and sample sentences and phrases for each writing step. Good writing can help make you the shining star of your office (or classroom).
The Writing Den
WritingDEN is designed for students Grades 6 through 12 seeking to improve their English reading, comprehension, and writing skills. WritingDEN is divided into three levels of difficulty: Words, Sentences and Paragraphs.
Writing Domains and Definitions
What is Scored on Virginia's SOL Writing Tests? (This site)
The Writing Process
An eight point list of priorities for the writing process adapted from Donald Murray's The Craft of Revision (Brandeis University Writing Center )
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