An interactive abbreviations assessment is found on this page. Acronym, initialism, and contraction concepts are included on this assessment.

Journalists are inundated with acronyms. This site contains 240,000 of them and their meanings. Search tool allows you to enter the exact acronym or the first letter. You can even enter a keyword and look for acronyms that include it....

This site focuses on abbreviations including definitions, acronyms and initialisms, abbreviations for courtesy titles and academic degrees, Latin abbreviations, and other common abbreviations including time and dates, places, and units...

Site provides some different rules applying to subject-verb agreement, especially in cases of "expressions of quantity." Excellent information for students looking to hone their craft of writing.

This site provides an online dictionary of legal terms that you can use by looking up words or definitions.

In this slide show tutorial, students will review basics in writing memos in the context of a business setting. The author emphasizes that the purpose, style, format, and organization need attention when writing a memo.

This lesson focuses on abbreviations including an introduction to abbreviations with examples, why they are used, links to abbreviation activities, and a summary of the abbreviation information in text format. It also provides a...

An article with information and strategies for technical document writing. More article under "Resources".

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to recognize linguistic roots and affixes to use in determining the meaning of academic English word and in other content areas.

This lesson focuses on specialized reading strategies such as online reading, reading in math, science, etc., and reading charts and graphs. It provides text, videos, charts and graphs, graphics, and a self-check.

A brief guide to writing a formal business request for further communication/negotiation with a potential employer.

This handout focuses on writing definitions including the three parts: term, class, and differentiating characteristics. It also explains when you need to use definitions and some additional tips for writing definitions.

This article explains in general how to build vocabulary using reading strategies such as context clues.

This lesson focuses on strategies to diversify and retain new vocabularies such as reading a variety of types of writing and learning roots, suffixes, prefixes, and the etymology of words.

In this learning module, students review abstract nouns referring to qualities, ideas, and emotions.

This site shows exactly how to write a memo. The site talks about the components to use: header, purpose, summary, discussion, action.

In this science-themed literacy lesson, students determine the meaning of domain-specific vocabulary. W.9-10.2d lang/voc

This instructional activity focuses on using precise language in informative texts. It defines precise text and discusses how to use precise language. W.9-10.2d lang/voc, W.11-12.2d Lang/Fig/Voc

A handout exploring how to complete a scientific report based on scientific research. The site describes the sections needed as well as how to insert graphs and tables.

This EnglishClub reference page provides the definition for "abbreviation" and then provides a chart with examples of abbreviations.

A great reference when writing business messages or letters. Discusses the most important issues involved in business writing and an organizational system for them.

A good reference to consider when writing professionally (as in business/technical writing). Includes brief structural examples.

This is a glossary entry for the term "Periodic Structure" including the definition and an example.

Clear information about sentence subject, including definition, explanation of how to find subject, distinction between complete subject and simple subject, and other helpful points.