technical level — the kind of thing you’d study in a graduate course on the structure of English — it is filled with persuasive observations and advice. Here’s a paragraph about short sentences: Ideas ...

We get thoughts to sculpt into sentences from two fountainheads: one is life experiences and the other, imagination. Through his crisp and terse sentences, Ernest Hemingway transformed into paragons ...

Your space-warping, mind-bending science fiction/fantasy novel isn’t just action set pieces and breathtaking ideas — it’s got character and atmosphere. And when you’re developing those things, it’s ...

A paragraph is a collection of related sentences dealing with a single topic. This handout breaks the paragraph down into its conceptual and structural components. The conceptual components — ...

Think about all of your ideas and what you would like to do with them. Write or draw them out and see if you can find a connection between these ideas. Limit your ideas Find a connection that links ...

Revision is re-seeing the writing you've done so far while keeping the reader in mind. It's your chance to look at your writing objectively to see how a reader would interpret and respond to your ...

Each of the paragraphs below contains three underlined sentences. Read each paragraph and then click on the sentence (or sentences) that you think is the topic sentence of that paragraph. Carpeting ...

This model provides scaffolded active engagement and opportunities for guided practice to help students master new skills.

This handout is available for download in DOCX format and PDF format. A paragraph is a collection of related sentences dealing with a single topic. This handout breaks the paragraph down into its ...