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Writing Den: Essay Writing Tips
All you want to know about writing essays, from prewriting to editing. Click on the tip-o-matic and find tips on anything dealing with grammar or writing.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Editing and Proofreading Strategies for Revision
This lesson contains strategies for proofreading your assignments. Use the links on the left for a step-by-step method for proofreading and editing for grammar and mechanics. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.5
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Daily Grammar Archive
This site includes over 440 daily grammar lessons that are grouped into sections that cover the eight parts of speech, sentence structure, and mechanics. Quizzes are also included and are sorted according to the grammatical topic being...
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Grammarly Handbook: Unnecessary Words and Phrases
This page explains the need to revise writing to remove unnecessary words and phrases to produce clear, concise writing. Examples are provided.
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Grammarly Handbook: Appearance
This page focuses on the appearance of the paper after the writing is complete. It offers links to a pre-printing checklist and a post-printing checklist.
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Grammarly Handbook: Basic Mechanics
This page focuses on the basic mechanics of writing including links to Genre, Thinking, Methods of Reasoning, Evidence, and Citation.
Harvard University
Harvard Writing Center: Tips on Grammar, Punctuation and Style
Rather than lists of rules, this site provides practical advice on the use of commas, semicolons, dashes, hyphens, abbreviations, acronyms, split infinitives, "this," "that," italics, and underlining. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2
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Grammarly Blog: Commas After Introductory Phrases
This Grammarly Handbook resource explains how to use commas after introductory phrases in sentences.
Colorado State University
Colorado State University: Writing @ Csu Writing Guides
This is a fairly sophisticated series of writing guides. It assumes that users already have a solid grasp of spelling, grammar and mechanics, so it focuses more on organization and types of presentation than on more basic skills....
W. W. Norton
W.w. Norton&company:the Writing Process: Conventions That Can Cause Problems
Click through lessons on conventions that can cause problems in an essay including tenses, titles, and names. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.1
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Grammarly Handbook: Shifts in Writing
Five areas to edit for shifts in writing: Consistent Point of View, Consistent Verb Tenses, Verbs Consistent in Mood and Voice, Shifts from Indirect to Direct Questions/Quotations, and Shifts from British to American English. Each area...
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Grammarly Handbook: Genre
This page focuses on genre which cautions students to be sure there are writing the type of writing that was assigned. They need to know the different genres and what is expected of them.
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Grammarly Handbook: Sentence Structure
Tips on how to vary sentence structure to strengthen writing.
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Grammarly Handbook: Wordiness
This page focuses on reducing wordiness in writing by using more concise language, and avoiding extra-long words and sentences.
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Grammarly Handbook: Appropriate Vocabulary
This page focuses on the choice of vocabulary in a paper: Is it clear and appropriate for the audience? Does the vocabulary fit the subject matter? W.11-12.2d Lang/Fig/Voc
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Grammarly Handbook: Citations
This page focuses on the need for proper citation of all sources including in-text, footnotes, and endnotes in the appropiate style.
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Grammarly Handbook: Supporting Points and Proof
An explanation of supporting details and tips on writing them.
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Grammarly Handbook: Evidence
This page focuses on the evidence to support points in an essay. Be sure you have enough support for each point and that the points are strong ones. It also suggests you double check both direct and indirect quotations in your paper to...
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Grammarly Handbook: Methods of Reasoning
A list (with examples) of common errors in logic including the following: non sequiturs, hasty generalization circular argument, ad hominem, ad populum, and red herring.
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Grammarly Handbook: Pre Printing Check
A list of items to check before printing a final copy.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Putting It Together: Readability
This readability lesson focuses on developing strategies for proofreading and editing your writing for readability errors such as grammar and punctuation.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Capitalization Worksheets
This learning module provides remediation with capitalizing nouns. Practice with capitalizing nouns is provided with through worksheets, an online site, and a video tutorial [2:21]