Wondering how to respond to the age-old question when will I ever use this? The answer is very simple when discussing technical writing. Teachers and administrators gain an understanding of using technical writing in the classroom....

How have educational standards evolved? Educators of adults examine expectations in the 10th workshop out of 15 to better determine how standards have grown. Participants respond to a variety of sample questions to determine how they...

This lesson focuses on the four types of writing: narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive including definition and characteristics of each and an interactive activity over they types. It also provides links to more information...

This lesson is a review of the unit on types of writing including purpose, audience, tone, the writing process, the four types of writing, and sentence fragments and run-ons. A quiz is provided.

This lesson introduces two types of writing: expository and persuasive. It defines and provides examples of each kind. It offers links to MLA Formatting and Style Guide and sample papers of opinion and exository essays.

This lesson focuses on expository writing including definition and characteristics. It provides links to the Discovery Education video: "An Unsinkable Essay," "Expository Essays," "What is Expository Writing?" "Types of Informative...

This lesson focuses on the writing process including understanding purpose, audience, and tone and the parts of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.

What are the modes of writing? Use this site that details the different types of writing.

Definitions of the four types of writing: narrative, expository, persuasive, and descriptive.

A fifteen-question quiz in which the reader identifies a type of writing for each situation: argumentation, exposition, narrative, or description. Correct answers are displayed once answers are submitted.

This helpful resource details the process of writing, including how to plan, write, and revise. Content also includes the different types or genres of writing, and exercises in grammar and mechanics.

The section on Common Types of Writing Assignments is a particularly helpful piece of this site. Learn how to approach a wide variety of writing tasks from lab reports to literary reviews. Then use the rest of the site to learn how to...

This lesson focuses on sentence errors like fragments, run-ons, comma splices, and fused sentences. It expains these errors, provides examples, and offers an interactive practice activity.

This site offers links to types of documents used to communicate information in the workplace. They include short reports, proposals, memos, case studies, and lab reports.

Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. Enhances students' understanding of different types of writing and their own writing for different purposes. Good site.

Literacy Education Online (or LEO) is a great place to start if you need help with your writing. The homepage is organized around kinds of problems or questions you might have concerning your writing. Find your problem, click on the...

Students will plan a paragraph that states their opinion and cites evidence to justify their opinion about an informational text. This lesson uses biographies since students can easily be able to write down factual information from the...

This video segment from Between the Lions features a motivating, kid-friendly song that celebrates the reasons to write in everyday life.

Listen and learn about different types of chemical reactions such as combination, combustion and decomposition. Learn different steps on how to write combustion equations and view how single displacement reaction occurs.

If you are a teacher OR a student looking for a well-informed website on elements of the writing process, you are in luck! This site from the Capital Community College is very comprehensive and easy-to-navigate. From grammar basics to...

This lesson focuses on the types of reading material and their distinguishing features. It also included two videos including the key features from a newspaper story video and a video that defines scholarly articles.

This is an introduction to a unit on writing in various genre including Nonfiction, Narrative, Literary Writing, Short Stories, and Poetry. Analysis of "The Odyssey", "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Romeo and Juliet". Click on the View links...

This tutorial focuses on different aspects of poetry: definitions, types of poetry with examples, and how to read, write, and analyze poetry. It includes three videos: a YouTube video of "El Guante" performing a free verse poem, a...

This chapter focuses on writing an argument including what is an argument, types of arguments, elements of arguments, layouts, claims, counterarguments, evidence, validity, types of fallacies, and more. W.9-10.1 Arguments, W.11-12. 1...