Compose clear, coherent, well-organized multi-paragraphed works. 0501.3.13

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1. Basic Essay Structure - Knowing how to organize your ideas in long essays is very important for academic success.
2. Class Exercise: Paragraph Coherence - Practice creating paragraphs that treat one main topic in a common-sense order [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
3. Coherence and Unity - lesson plan presenting major connectors and minor connectors
4. Cohesion - using repetition and reference words to emphasize key ideas in your writing
5. Different Types of Paragraphs in an Essay - exercise 4.1 - Identify each sentence as belonging to an introductory, body or concluding paragraph. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
6. Different Types of Paragraphs in an Essay - exercise 4.2 - Read an introductory paragraph and identify the (1) thesis statement, (2) context for the essay and (3) limitation of the essay to a particular area. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
7. Five Paragraph Essay - suggested outline
8. Information Elimination (6 - 8) model, instruct, and practice narrowing a topic for expository writing
9. Make Kids' Writing Shine: Using Beginnings and Endings to Teach Craft - strategies for writing.
10. Multi Paragraph Essay - graphic organizer to print for your students
11. Paragraph Coherence - several exercises with answers supplied [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
12. Paragraph Coherence - Coherence in a paragraph is the technique of making words, phrases, and sentences move smoothly and logically from one to the other
13. Paragraph Structure Exercise - number sentences in an appropriate order to form a well-structured paragraph [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
14. Paragraph Writing Exercise - several exercises asking your students to input their writing online
15. Sentence Order - lesson and exercise [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
16. Sentence Order in Paragraphs - lesson and exercise [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
17. Want to write narrative? Think in movie mode - Try these techniques to better prepare your approach to narrative writing [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]

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