Student Links
Do
the Write Thing - website designed to display the writing
of Adult Basic Education students
Writing Strategies - a helpful listing of many strategies for teaching writing skills. Strategies are listed by each phase of the writing process and from the perspective of both student and teacher strategies.
Five Paragraph Essay Wizard - Covering format, drill, writing prompts, tips on technique, evaluations, revisions, getting started--you name it, it's here. All you need to develop an excellent module for writing essays in middle and high school.
Principals of Composition - an entire Web site for writers in English composition courses — featuring handouts on Getting Started, Structure, Tone, Transitions, Editing, Logic, Formats, Rhetorical Patterns, Argumentative Essays, Research Papers, and more accompanied by an abundance of successful sample essays.
Writing Prompts and Journal Topics - What is the best advice you ever received? What would happen if there were no television? What is the worst thing parents can do to their children? How about the best? These are just a few prompts off the lineup at this site, perfect for middle to high school starters.
Paradigm: Online Writing Assistant - an interactive, menu-driven, online writer's guide and handbook written in HTML and distributed freely over the WWW. Paradigm is intended to be useful for all writers, from inexperienced to advanced. To get the most from the website, take time to explore its components.
Way to Write: An Interactive Guide to Writing - a step by step approach to writing from the University of Calgary which includes the elements of inspriiration, organization, composition, revision, presentation, and correction. The site also provides links to a grammar site and other writing sites.
Elements of Style - this online version of William Strunk's classic reference book is a must-have for any student and conscientious writer.
Roget's Internet Thesaurus - looking for that synonym of antonym? Here's the online version of Roget's Thesaurus, with many other features added--writing resources, word of the day, daily crosswords, and more.
The Biography Maker - takes you step-by-step through the stages of recreating a person's life, while at the same time insuring it is fascinating to the reader. Use the Biography Maker to either create imaginary characters, or interview and extend a character from a story you have just studied.
Essay Instructions -as well as writing process instructions, students will find clear steps for writing various kinds of essays.
Speeches- archive of many famous speeches provided by the History Channel website. Allows students and teachers to view, print and analyze a wide range of speeches to determine the elements which are characteristic of those writing styles which are intended for oral delivery, and make speeches such powerful form of communication.
How to Write A+ Essays - takes students through a step by step writing process and improves their skills--guaranteed to work...
A Process for Creative Reasearch Papers -guidelines for guiding students creatively through the research process, with suggested topics for superior papers.
The Writing Project - this is a link to a section of The Competitive Edge web site that is devoted to improving your writing skills. There you will find information about writing contests, prompts to help you develop ideas for you writing projects, information about how to publish your writing, and tips for good writng practices.
Graphic Organizers - graphic organizers help you to structure your writing so that accomplishes its goal. This page includes several examples of various graphic organizers that you will find useful.
Six Trait Analytic Writing Model - this student writng handbook found on Kim's Korner for Teacher Talk is divided into sections for each of the six traits of content, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and writing conventions. There an also an additional section on revising and editing. Each section includes a useful rubric to help students analyze their writing. GED student should note the section on organization.
A Guide to the Writing Process - AT&T guide to the writing process
Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus - for those interested in writing poetry and other forms of writing, this is a great tool. Just type in a word and the program will create a huge list of single syllable words and multiple syllable words and phrase that rhyme with this word. You may also select a wide range of other searches based on your word including synonms, antomyms and the like.