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Learning Goal - Writing Example: Essay Forms
Suggested Strategies or Projects for Learning Goals
Essay Basics - "your plan for creating a clear and convincing essay" - For elementary students you can also see Basic Guide to Essay Writing
- outline
- thesis
- introduction
- body
- conclusion
Essay Types - descriptions and "how to"
- 5-paragraph
- admission
- argumentative cause and effect
- classification
- comparison
- critical
- deductive
- definition
- exploratory
- expository
- informal
- literature
- narrative
- personal
- persuasive
- research
- response
- scholarship
- abbreviations and acronyms
- addresses
- capitalization
- myths
- numbers
- plurals
- possessives
- punctuation
- spelling
- choosing the topic
- narrowing down the topic
- organizing the essay
- organizing the paragraph
- active verbs
Pre-writing strategies (scroll down to preferred topic)
- clustering (visual organizer)
- brainstorming
- MLA
- APA