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Higher education writing-essays ebooks
Paragraphs: Master the 9 Sequences!
These seven lessons are all about the body of the essay: Paragraphs. In these lessons we cover nine sequences that will actually enable your students to plan and even visualize an entire paragraph, before they write a single word. That's because we are using the same numbering system that we saw in the Sentences lessons, except that we are writing an entire paragraph rather than just a sentence at a time. Now your students can imagine a 1-2-2-3 as four separate sentences, as they explain their p
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Essays: A Study in Contrasts
This famous essay, Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts, by Bruce Catton, is an outstanding display of nearly every lesson covered in the Writing Whatever program. From the introduction, through the body paragraphs, and to the conclusion, Catton delivers a powerful and enlightening discourse on the similarities and differences between these "two strong men." Students are often taught that there are two choices in writing a compare/contrast essay, Block or Topic. Catton masterfully uses both: Bloc
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Semicolons + Correlative Conjunctions
What percentage of your students screw up semicolons? Let's put an end to it, and have a hysterical time doing it. We've got the pattern, so it's simple. And as I say in the video, mastering the semicolon will bring better grades and better college application essays.As for Correlative Conjunctions, they are a favorite of all kinds of fill-in-the-dots-with-your-number-2-pencil tests. The little rule you see on the image of the page shows the simple answer about getting it right. Again, practice.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Essay Introductions + Vocabulary Triangle
Teach your class how to make the introduction to the essay look like an authentic photograph of the moment, culminating in a roadmap that sets up the entire essay. The topic here explored is Charlemagne, but it could be any person, place, thing, or idea that you want the class to tackle. Again, it becomes a template that is flexible and whose design inspires specific details to support the presentation. A recipe for confidence and success.The "Vocabulary Triangle" is not so much a writing trick
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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