Writing Style Teacher Resources

Specialized but useful rubric geared towards examining journalistic style writing. Provides evaluation guidelines that one teacher uses, with a rubric to evaluate.

Revise means to take another look at something. If you are not satisfied with your story, this is the step where you add details, dialog, and action to make the story more interesting.

From the Purdue University Writing Lab, this is an exercise to practice using numbers in writing. Answers are from a link at the bottom of the page.

This resource presents the easiest errors to make when writing. Use this resource to help you proof your work.

This page provides several tips for using formal tone in an essay. The tips are arranged into 'Do' and 'Do not use' categories.

This lesson discusses the importance of parallel construction in pairs. Parallel sentences with comparisons or contrasts are included in the lesson. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Parallel Structure in Pairs." L.9-10.1a Parallelism

Describes different writing strategies to be used with analogies to help get a point across. Gives three good examples.

Informational site that provides the definition for and examples of analogy.

Kindergarten students created this children's picture book. If You Take a Dog to the Beach was based on the commercial book series that includes If You Give a Moose a Muffin in which a sequence of events is kicked off by an initial...

A humorous explanation of syntax and sentence structure, and how meaning in language is made up of so much more than words.

This lesson introduces diction. This tutorial shares a short audio lesson [5:11] and supplemental notes with the lesson's content.

This site describes Basho's writing style, including his sense of humor. It also provides several examples of his poetry.

This brief analysis of Buson's writing style is followed by several examples of his works.

A list of style techniques (with examples) used to create an informal tone in a written piece.

This page focuses on reducing wordiness in writing by using more concise language, and avoiding extra-long words and sentences.

If you need a brief, clear explanation of allusion and how it works, this is a good place to start.