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The ability to write clearly is essential to any person's effective communications. Students with high-level writing skills can produce documents that show planning and organization and can effectively convey the intended message and meaning. Clear writing is critical to employment and production in today's world. Individuals must be capable of writing for a variety of audiences in differing styles, including standard rhetoric themes, business letters and reports, financial proposals, and technical and professional communications. Students should be able to use word processors and computers to enhance their writing proficiency and improve their career opportunities.

COOL LINKS

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/
Creative Writing Lesson Plans, Activities, Teachers' Guides

Plagiarism and How to Avoid it - a site for students and teachers to read and
use by David Gardner from Hong Kong University. It gives you advice,
a self-test and you can download material for personal use.

Purdue University Online Writing Lab Writing across the curriculum and
writing in the disciplines

Andrew Moore's Teaching Resource Site lots of material on English
language and literature, media, reading and writing.

Description and Internet Skills - using the internet to teach description
and description to teach internet skills.

Pizzaz - dedicated to providing simple creative writing and oral
storytelling activities with copyable (yes, copyable!) handouts
for use with students of all ages. Permission is given to use these
resources for in-class, non-profit use only.

Biography Maker (step-by-step process for converting facts to a lively story)
http://www.bham.wednet.edu/bio/biomak2.htm

Books From the Heart (ideas for creating special keepsakes)
http://www.BooksFromTheHeart.com

Handwriting Without Tears (an occupational therapist offers many tips
for improving penmanship -- as well as a multisensory instructional program)
http://www.hwtears.com/

Kid News (provides guidelines for writing various genres and an opportunity
for children to publish their writing on the Internet)
http://www.kidnews.com

KnowTypos.com (an editing service that works through e-mail)
http://www.knowtypos.com/

Only a Matter of Opinion? (excellent information for columns and
persuasive writing, including editorial cartoons; includes suggestions
for lessons and assessment)
http://library.thinkquest.org/50084/index.shtml?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0928

Print Periodicals that Publish Children's Writing (includes addresses
and type of material published)
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/resources/languagearts/
readingwriting/Publish/periodicpubl.htm

Research Papers (helps you select a topic and begin online research)
http://www.researchpaper.com

Writing Prompts (hundreds of ideas)
http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/prompts.html

Writing Successful College Admission Essays (purpose and structure of this specialized genre, as well as steps in the writing process)
http://www.sru.edu/depts/admissio/lagnese/essays.htm

Writing Argumentative Essays - a unit of curriculum which aims to teach students how to write short argumentative essays of approximately 1000 words. by Bill Daly Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.

Alphabet Superhighway Writing activity center the place to come for writing ideas!