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The Hack Novelist. Writing Fun by Jenny Eather - helping kids with how to write using text organizers - an interactive writing resource. 50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills | Developer's Toolbox. Effective writing skills are to a writer what petrol is to a car. Like the petrol and car relationship, without solid skills writers cannot move ahead.

These skills don’t come overnight, and they require patience and determination. You have to work smart and hard to acquire them. Only with experience, you can enter the realm of effective, always-in-demand writers. Of course, effective writing requires a good command of the language in which you write or want to write. We collected over 50 useful and practical tools and resources that will help you to improve your writing skills. 1. Ultimate Style: The Rules Of WritingThe web’s ultimate guide to grammar provides a database of topics and an easy-to-search A-Z list of common questions (via) Use English Punctuation Correctly1A quick and useful crash course in English punctuation. HyperGrammar2An extensive electronic grammar course at the University of Ottawa’s Writing Centre. 2. Dr. 3. 4. Headlines and Trigger Words Link Practical tips Link 5. Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map.

National Novel Writing Month. Write for ASCD Express. Published every two weeks, ASCD Express, launched in fall 2005, seeks to give a new generation of educators in the United States and around the world the practical information they need to be the best-informed in the field. Because of the nature of the web and the demands made on typical educators—too much information and too little time to read it—ASCD Express seeks brief, practical content (articles of about 600 words; multimedia no longer than 10 minutes).

We welcome research-based submissions as well as your own examples from the classroom and advice about how to adapt successful strategies or overcome challenges, whether as a teacher, administrator, or specialist. Read our list of upcoming themes, and consider publishing in ASCD Express. When submitting articles, please write the issue theme in the subject line of your e-mail. denotes a theme that corresponds to an issue of Educational Leadership.

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