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Empire State College: Writing Style Seminar HandoutEmpire State College: Writing Style Seminar Handout
Publisher
SUNY Empire State College
Resource Details
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Grade
9th - 10th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Handouts & References
Audiences
For Administrator Use
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Lexile Measures
970L
Handout

Empire State College: Writing Style Seminar

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This detailed resource provides a good tutorial on writing style, whether informal or formal. It explains how to get style through word and sentence choice and includes lots of examples. W.9-10.1d & W.9-10.2e Style/tone/conv, W.11-12.1d Tone/Style, W.11-12.1e Tone/Style, W.11-12.4 Clear/Coherent Writing, L.11-12.3a Syntax

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

active voice, cliches, passive voice, sentence variety, word choice

Additional Tags

establish and maintain a formal style, inflated language, jargon, maintain consistency in style and tone, paragraph development, parallelism, sentence choice, ccss.ela, empire state college, empire state college: writing style seminar w.6.1.d, w.6.2.e, l.6.3.b, oh.ela-literacy.whst.9-10.2f, suny empire state college, w.11-12.1d tone/style, w.11-12.1e tone/style, w.11-12.4 clear/coherent writing, w.6.1.d, w.6.2.e, w.9-10.1d style/tone/conv, w.9-10.2e style/tone/conv, writing style seminar, style

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

W.11-12.1.d W.11-12.2.e L.11-12.3.a W.6.1.d W.6.2.e L.6.3.b W.7.2.e W.8.1.d W.8.2.e W.9-10.1.d W.9-10.2.e W.11-12.4

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