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Graphic Organizers/Pre-Writing Ideas
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Academic Writing Basics

Opinion/Argumen
t
Narrative Essay
Profile essay

Cause/Effec
t
Process Essay

Classification Essay

Collocations

Transitions/linking Words
Descriptive Writin
g

Brainstorming

Comparison/Contras
t

Describing Graphs

Writing Reviews

Letter Writing& Business

Word Building

Critical thinking

Grammar
Sentences

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Brainstorm worksheet: cluster diagram (PDF)
Essay outline worksheet (PDF)
Outline worksheet for an academic paragraph (PDF)
Holt Rinehart and Winston samples: Graphic Organizers
(one of the most useful resources on the Net for encouraging critical thinking foracademic
essays)
More Graphical Organizers for Essays
Essay Writing Outlines
Essay outline guide & worksheet (PDF)
General Essay Outline (PDF)

Blank Essay Outline(word doc)

OUP Explorations 1 workbook sample- pre-writing strategies..quickwriting, cluster diagrams
etc. (PDF)
Comparison/contrast outline (pdf)
Cause/Effect Outline (pdf)
Finding & writing the main idea in paragraphs
Writing the main idea for medical topics
with picture cues (PDF)
Write the main idea for groups of words (word)
Write the common subject for each group of words (or "write a good title for each list").
Read the short paragraphs and select the main idea
Finding, underlining and writing the main idea
Sentence writing exercises
Parallel structure worksheet (PDF)
Mark the correct parallel sentence a or b (PDF)
Read the following example sentences and revise any that do not use parallel structure PDF)
Faulty Parallelism: correct the faulty parallelism in the following sentences.(PDF)

Topic,support sentences, attention getters for essay and paragraph writing

Using pictures to teach attention getters (PDF)
Attention getters worksheet (PDF)
Writing essay topic sentences (PDF)
Topic sentences worksheet (PDF)
Writing different kinds of essay support sentences (PDF)
Write support sentences (PDF)
Writing main ideas practice- with picture cues (PDF)

Topic, support and concluding sentences xercises for paragraph writing: (PDF)
Exercises for topic sentences (PDF)
Writing support sentences for an opinion paragraph
about television with pictures (PDF)
Writing topic sentences and detail sentences
lesson (PDF)
Paragraph writing terminology quiz (PDF)
Find the topic sentence worksheet (PDF)
Writing exciting topic sentences (PDF)
Write a topic sentence for each of these paragraphs.
(PDF)
Match topic sentences to the paragraphs (PDF)
Write and find topic sentences (PDF)
Writing exciting paragraphs (PDF)
Fill in each blank with the topic sentence (word)
Put a ring around the letter that corresponds to what you think is the topic sentence(PDF)
Write topic sentences for paragraphs-business
related (PDF)
For each limited topic below, select the two items that could serve as topic sentences
Rewrite the following paragraphs by joining simple sentences into complex and compound
ones
One sentence in each of the following pairs is the topic sentence. (PDF)
Concluding sentences quiz (PDF)
Concluding sentences worksheet with answers (word)
Concluding sentences exercise (word)
Knowledge about concluding sentences quiz (PDF)
Choose the correct concluding sentences

Write topic sentences & concluding sentences (PDF)

Hints for writing a conclusion (PDF)
Other exercises for introductions, attention getters/grabbers / leads /hooks
Writing attention getters for persuasive essays
(PDF)
Writing catchy introductions worksheet (PDF)
Attention getters guide (PDF)
Introductory Paragraph: Hook Strategies worksheet
(PDF)
Writing Your Introduction: 4 styles with examples
9 ways of "getting the readers attention"
Other introductory/elementary writing activities
Describing How to Get to a City Location
worksheet (PDF)
Writing simple sentences worksheet (PDF)
Describing a person worksheet (PDF)
Job interview & writing worksheet (PDF)
Describing a Room: vocabulary & worksheets
worksheet (PDF)
"A Day at the Ocean" writing activity (PDF)