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Texas Gateway:revising Expository/procedural Essay:rhetorical Device/transitions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that it contains appropriate rhetorical devices and transitions.
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Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Counterarguments Based on Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising counter-arguments that anticipate objections in an essay.
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Texas Gateway: Revising Expository/procedural Essay: Introduction and Conclusion

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for revising an essay so that it contains an effective introduction, conclusion, and controlling idea or thesis.
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Texas Gateway: Revising Expository/procedural Essay: Purpose, Audience, Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Find out strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that it is organized appropriate to purpose, audience, and context.
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Texas Gateway: Restrictive/nonrestrictive Clauses and Punctuation

For Students 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to edit an essay for correct punctuation of restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses and punctuation of contrasting expressions.
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Texas Gateway: Organization Appropriate to Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay that is organized appropriate to audience, purpose, and context. W.9-10.4 Write/Aud/purp, W.11-12.4 Clear/Coherent Writing
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Texas Gateway: Analysis of Relative Values of Specific Data, Facts, and Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students can practice finding specific types of sources and learn the questions to ask when evaluating information for a persuasive essay.
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Texas Gateway: Evaluating and Revising a Thesis: Practice 1 (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn how to identify, evaluate, and revise thesis statements and how to identify the issues that might need to be revised. It also provides...
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Texas Gateway: The Writing Process: Generate Ideas and Questions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies to help you generate questions and ideas about a topic.
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Texas Gateway: Commentary on Quotations From Text in an Interpretive Response

For Students 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay that uses embedded quotations to provide evidence in your response to an expository or a literary text.
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Texas Gateway: Differentiate Among Empirical, Anecdotal, and Logical Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Distinguish among different kinds of evidence in a text that supports conclusions and arguments in texts.
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Texas Gateway: Effective Introduction and Conclusion Sentence Structure Variety

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Write effective introductions and conclusions with a controlling idea or thesis, using a variety of sentence patterns.