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Essays

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Lesson Plans

1. Reading and Writing Exercises (Paradigm - Guilford)
   Includes writing and improving different types of essays, such as informal essays, expository essays, argumentative essays, exploratory essays, and thesis essays. Also includes lessons on organizing, editing, and revising writing, as well as discovering what to write. These lessons are fully developed and include Internet links.

Lists

1. Essays - Guide to Writing Essays (Livingston)
   Provides suggestions for conducting research and writing the introduction, body and conclusions of the essay.
2. Essays and Grammar Links (Livingston)
   Provides 27 sources of information to assist with essays and 14 source of information on grammar.
3. Study Skills (Virginia Tech)
   Includes note taking, time management, test taking for essays or objective exams, study skills, reading skills and more.

Materials

1. Rubrics for Essays and Other Rubrics (About.com - Kelly)
   Provides a variety of tools and articles to help develop rubrics to assess essays and other work of students. 3-01

Papers

1. Essays - Thesis Statement (Brown)
   Provides tips for developing the thesis or proposition of an essay.
2. Essays for College Entrance (US News)
   Provides tips on developing the essay needed for many colleges.

Projects

1. Creative Writing Projects (About.com - Dobbs)
   Provides projects, such as writing essays and poems, around themes. Dobbs assists the authors and puts the best materials on a Web page for all to see. See, for example, the September 25th project, "Solutions for a Better World."