Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Brainstorming Research Questions
An excellent tip sheet for using brainstorming techniques for writing research papers. It also gives great examples of factual and interpretive questions. It also provides links to very helpful tip sheets with examples and a worksheet...
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
Selecting a Research Topic
A good resource which explains and outlines a student's choices when confronted with choosing a research topic. Includes links to an overview, focusing your topic, and more.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Introducing Your Speech
Follow these do's and don'ts of writing an effective introduction to a speech that will grab your audience's attention and state your central idea. Use the arrows to move through the information.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Purpose, Audience, and Context
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising the organization of an essay, including purpose, audience, and context.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Learning How to Speak Publicly
This site provides a variety of ways for people learn how to speak publicly and the best practices in preparing and presenting speeches. SL.9-10.4 Presentation
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Steps of Preparing a Speech
This instructional activity focuses on the steps for preparing a speech including choose a topic, analyze the audience, gather materials and evidence, develop a thesis, support ideas, organize and outline the speech, draft the speech,...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Finding and Selecting a Topic
This lesson focuses on selecting a speech topic including the importance of choosing a good topic by considering your areas of expertise and areas of interest, brainstorming, tips for choosing a topic, and narrowing the topic to fit the...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Gathering Evidence: An Overview
This lesson focuses on the importance of gathering information that provides evidence for your topic that is credible, current, and relevant. It also discusses how to find and evaluate sources. SL.9-10.1a Prepared/Discuss
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Getting the Most Out of a Persuasive Speech
This lesson focuses on presenting a good persuasive speech. It discusses the selective exposure theory, kinds of appeals, and expectations.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Principles of Organization
This lesson focuses on the importance of organizing your speech including critically thinking about the contents of the speech, the components of the speech, the patterns of organization to fit the different types of speeches, and...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Main Points
This lesson focuses on choosing the main points of your speech based on your audience and purpose. It also discusses ordering and highlighting your main points using visual and textual cues and using a variety of examples.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Introduction
This lesson focuses on the introduction to your speech. It includes the role of the introduction, strategies for the opening, getting attention and interest, establishing credibility, self-presentation, and introducing the topic, thesis,...
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Outlining
This lesson focuses on outlining your speech including the reasons for outlining, the kinds of outlines including their purpose what goes into each.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Managing Q&a
This lesson focuses on answering questions after or during an informative speech including how to prepare for Q&A by anticipating questions and practicing with a friend or colleague and methods of receiving and answering the questions.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Process: Selecting a Topic
This lesson plan focuses on selecting a writing topic including your approach to the assignment, understanding the assignment, purpose of the assignment, strategies for finding a topic, and how to narrow a topic to fit the scope and...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Introductions, Body Paragraphs, and Conclusions
This handout focuses on what an exploratory or inquiry paper is and how to write the introduction including the questions you need to answer and setting the context, stating why the main idea is important, and stating your research...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Research Process: Conclusion to Research Process
This article focuses on the real purpose of research, to learn about the subject of the investigation as much as possible and then form those theories, opinions, and arguments on the basis of this newly found knowledge and understanding...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Examples of Multimodal Texts
This lesson focuses on providing examples of multimodal texts, those using more than one mode of communication in the same text.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Contextual Factors to Consider
In this Boundless Communication presentation, students will learn about contexts to consider when preparing a speech including physical, the psychology of audience, audience opinion of you and topic, and audience knowledge of the topic.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Outlining
This website focuses on students the importance of having of outlining; it offers links to the discussion of four outlining concepts: Reasons for outlining, the Preparation outline, the Speaking outline, and the Rough Draft outline.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Creating and Using Presentation Note Cards
This learning module focuses on learning how to create presentation note cards and use them during a speech. The lesson is followed by a quiz.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Learning Skills for Interview and Group Discussion Communications
This lesson focuses on the skills needed for interviews and group discussions including taking notes, exploring a topic, and staying on topic. It also provides a link to a model interview. SL.11-12.6 Speaking tasks
University of Sydney (Australia)
University of Sydney: Module 3 Unit 1: Planning Your Essay
This unit index contains links with to guide students through the process of planning a multi-paragraph argumentative essay. Students will learn how to interpret the essay question, develop a writing plan, thesis, writing the argument,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 1
In this lesson, you will read and annotate a pair of texts to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence. Prepare to get involved in a conversation between you and the two texts you will be...