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40 of the Best Websites for Young Writers. Jun 09, 2011 Looking for writing help, peer review, grammar tips or just a little bit of advice from the World Wide Web?

40 of the Best Websites for Young Writers

Don't miss these 40 helpful websites for young writers. Writing Communities and Courses Young Writer's Society - Dedicated to scribes between the ages of 13 and 25, the Young Writer's Society is the world's largest website for young writers. The members-only community encourages submissions and offers tips that will help anyone become a better writer. Grammar and Reference Websites The Purdue Online Writing Lab - Purdue University's Online Writing Lab is a wonderful place to learn all of the various rules of grammar and usage. Creativity Boosters The Story Starter - Creativity abounds at Story Starter! 6 Online Tools That Will Help The Writing Process. Citelighter: Research, Write & Cite. Many teachers are ending their semesters with large scale assignments that require digital research.

Citelighter: Research, Write & Cite

According to the Common Core Standards, students who are “college and career ready” can “tailor their searches online to acquire useful information efficiently, and they integrate what they learn using technology with what they learn offline.” Three Good Advanced Search Options for Students. Common Core Standards Writing Rubric.

Creating a Formative Assessment System. Punctuation: Lesson Plans. Let Ss Talk to Help Them Write Well. (This is the first post in a three-part series on this topic) Anjilla Young and Lori DiGisi both asked a similar question: What can we do to prepare for the Common Core writing skills in our classrooms?

Let Ss Talk to Help Them Write Well

I'll be posting a three-part series over the next week responding to this question, with contributions I've invited from many educators. I've also received many comments from readers, and there is always room for more! Readers' comments will appear in Part Three next Sunday. Sentence Composing Home Page of the Killgallons. Text-message-periodic-table.jpg (JPEG Image, 2438 × 3143 pixels) - Scaled (20%) A Guide to Writing a Senior Thesis in History and Literature from Harvard. English III & IV. Calvin-on-academic-writing.gif 300×375 pixels. Developing Writers: A Workshop for High School Teachers. 33 Unusual Tips to Being a Better Writer Altucher Confidential. Back in college, Sanket and I would hang out in bars and try to talk to women but I was horrible at it.

33 Unusual Tips to Being a Better Writer Altucher Confidential

Nobody would talk to me for more than thirty seconds and every woman would laugh at all his jokes for what seemed like hours. Even decades later I think they are still laughing at his jokes. One time he turned to me, “the girls are getting bored when you talk. Your stories go on too long. From now on, you need to leave out every other sentence when you tell a story.” Read More: "The Ultimate Checklist" ... 33 other tips to be a better writer. – Write whatever you want. . – Take a huge bowel movement every day. . – Bleed in the first line. . – Don’t ask for permission. Three R's of Narrative Nonfiction. Writing Rules! Advice From The Times on Writing Well. The Times has recently published a few features that we consider gifts to English teachers everywhere, including a summer “How To” section of the Sunday Book Review, and a new series, called “Draft,” on the art of writing, which features essays by grammarians, historians, linguists, journalists, novelists and others.

Writing Rules! Advice From The Times on Writing Well

Below, we collect some “rules” we’ve derived from these features and from other pieces on the Times site, along with links and related activities we hope writers at any stage will find fun or useful — or both. Before you go, please note Rule 10, in which we ask for your writing advice. Rule 1: Listen to the Voice Inside Your Head. How to Write Great. And yet, at the end of the day — our own or days in general — what else do we seek from our books?

How to Write Great

The verities need not be expressed gently, unambiguously or in rhyming couplets, but it is the verities that make us know ourselves. And you can swoon your critical head off over Joyce’s bourgeois “Ulysses” and Robert Graves’s girl-crazy “Ulysses,” and still know in your acritical heart that neither holds a candle to the original wild sailor or even to Tennyson’s old salt, who strove, sought and found, and did not yield.

When I start thinking this way, I wonder if I’m just growing old, and tired of modernity. Yet even when modernity was young, I was dazzled more often by clarity than by calculated difficulty, and pleased simply by someone doing a far, far better thing. It is always thus. Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? The Sound of a Sentence. Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing.

The Sound of a Sentence

This is the seventh in a series of writing lessons by the author, starting with the basics and leading to more advanced techniques. At the top of my list of favorite children’s books is “Goodnight Moon,” with its soft lines and easy rhymes (Goodnight stars/ Goodnight air/ Goodnight noises everywhere). I never tire of the story, no matter how many children I read it to.

Beginning the Academic Essay. Topic Sentences and Signposting. A Brief Guide to Writing the English Paper. Writing "Original” Papers § Harvard Guide to Using Sources. Some writing assignments you receive at Harvard will explicitly ask you to present an "original" thesis, claim, or idea.

Writing "Original” Papers § Harvard Guide to Using Sources

But even when the word "original" isn't mentioned, you should assume that your professor expects you to develop a thesis that is the product of your own thinking and not something drawn directly from a source and planted in your paper. Occasionally an assignment will require only a summary of your reading, particularly if the instructor wants to make sure you have understood a particularly complex concept; however, some assignments may be worded in a way that leaves expectations ambiguous (you may be asked, for example, to "discuss" or "consider" a source), and you may think you are only expected to summarize when, in fact, you are expected to make an argument. 21W.735 Writing and Reading the Essay, Fall 2005. Writing in the Disciplines. Passive Voice Lesson.

Choose Active, Precise Verbs.