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Sharpening Your Writing Skills HandoutSharpening Your Writing Skills Handout
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9th - 10th
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English Language Arts
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Sharpening Your Writing Skills

Curated by ACT

This handbook provides step-by-step modules to help you develop an appropriate business writing style. It also gives you rules for punctuation and "plain English." Answers are provided for exercises. PDF document.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

outlining, point of view, sentence order, types of sentences, verb tenses, word choice, writing strategies

Additional Tags

active verbs, business technical write, business writing style, clustering, page design, page layout, passive verbs, planning to write, business english, designing effective pages, dictionary of plain english, using graphics, using word processor, writing style guide, business and technical writing

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

Common Core

L.9-10.1.a W.9-10.2.d L.11-12.3.a L.9-10.2.c L.11-12.2.b L.9-10.5.b W.9-10.3.c L.9-10.4.b L.11-12.1.a WHST.9-10.2.d RI.9-10.5 L.11-12.1.b WHST.9-10.2.e W.9-10.2.e WHST.9-10.1.d W.11-12.2.e W.11-12.1.d WHST.11-12.1.d W.9-10.1.d

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