Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This content resource contains an online handout which explains what a paragraph is and offers a five-step process for developing an effective paragraph. Examples are provided at each step in the process and are then combined into an example of a fully developed paragraph.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 442 Writing Guides: Understanding Development Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This content resource contains a definition of development, reasons for developing ideas, types of development, and strategies students can use to develop ideas. The “types of development” page provides separate links to nine types of development.... Projects: Writing 6-12 Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This content resource contains an online handout which offers an explanation of the function and importance of transitions, types of transitions, and examples of transitional expressions. A chart depicts the type of logical relationship signaled by the example transitional expressions provided in the chart.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This content resource offers an explanation of the function and importance of conclusions, provides guidelines for writing effective conclusions, and gives examples of effective and ineffective conclusions. A list of strategies to avoid when writing conclusions is also included.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 445 Writing Projects, Stages of Writing Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This section of the CUNY Writesite pages takes students through the whole writing process, including audience and purpose, and leads to a fully guided revision of the draft (Revision section), from global to sentence level. Students can work within a text box, and at the end they can save their earlier draft and the revised draft.... Projects: Writing 6-12 446 Reorganizing Your Draft Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: These pages lead students through the process of reorganizing a draft, offering five strategies students can use. The five strategies are carefully explained and easy for students to follow.... Projects: Writing 6-12 Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This content resource contains an online handout which is designed to motivate students to revise their drafts and to provide specific strategies for revising. The FAQ format addresses students’ concerns and questions about revision and provides information regarding what revision is and is not.... Projects: Writing 6-12 448 Revising Thesis Statements Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This content resource is a PDF handout which provides processes and strategies for revising a thesis statement early in the drafting process. Each strategy is illustrated by specific examples of working thesis statements and revised thesis statements.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 449 Revising for wordiness Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This content resource is a PDF handout which offers seven ways to eliminate wordiness. Examples are included for each strategy.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 450 Finding the main idea in paragraphs Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This content resource offers a brief explanation of how to find the main idea in paragraphs. Four interactive quizzes provide practice for students in locating the main or implied main idea, whether it's at the beginning, middle, or end of the paragraph.... Projects: Writing 6-12 |