WRITING LINKS
- The
Writing Centre at the University of
Ottawa
- The
On-Line Writing Lab from Perdue University
- A
Handbook of Rhetorical Devices (and
if you don't find it there, try this Glossary
of terms) or if you need reinforcement
by sound clips try Rhetorical
Figures in Sound
- Sentences
and Style from the Learning Commons,
University of Guelph
- Seven
Types of Paragraph Development
- A site on the History
of English that makes a good starting
point to discover information on this topic which is part of expectations
in the new Ontario curriculum.
- Creative
Writing for Teens
- School Achievement Indicators Program (SAIP)
- Link to Canadian poet, writer and editor, Susan
Ioannou
- Rubrics from The
Staff Room for Ontario Teachers
- Excellent opportunities for students to publish
and to comment on scripts at FanFiction.
- Here's an interesting site at which you can create
your own printable checklists for various
writing projects.
- TeenLit.com
is a site both for publishing of student work and for feedback for young writers.
- Check out this Canadian site (Saskatchewan) for
how to set up and implement writing
process workshops.in an elementary classroom.
- An interesting exemplar
project from the American Northwest
Educational Authority - dealing with a "Six-Trait" model.
- Bartleby's
Quotations on-line.
- Free on-line
English dictionary and reference guide.
- The
Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
- A wealth of links available from the University
of Toronto's Writing Centre
- The University of Toronto's Movie
Authoring and Design software (MAD) -
an integrated set of tools for script writing, storyboarding, recording and
editing of audio and video, creating transitions and titles and presenting
movies.
- The
MLA Style Guide for siting sources (including
the electronic)
- Merriam
Webster's Collegiate Dictionary on-line
- Writers
In Electronic Residence (WIER) - "Cool
Tools" for writing on-line
- Visit Research
It for dictionaries, thesauri, biographies,
Bartlett's Quotes, language converters, money converters.....
- A whole site written in 1997 and devoted to Writing
Argumentative Essays
- Great research possibilities courtesy of the
dictionary folks - Funk
and Wagnall
- The Art
of Writing Webzine - articles and interviews
on the process of writing along with a Poem Generator and Story Starter
- Writer's
Toolbox for a list of contacts and resources
for your work.
- The University of Wisconsin's Writing Centre
leads to sites dealing with how
to cite electronic sources.
- Here's a site that shows you and your students
how to evaluate The
Reliability and Authority of Websites.
- Everything you ever wanted to know about the
writing of the Five
Paragraph Essay