Writers Talk
Read these 7 Rs which Francisco Jimenez shared with our class. Learn more about his writing process fromthis interview.
Read this interview in which Michael Crichton talks about his writing methods and how he became a writer.
Read these quotes about imagination by famous writers. What does imagination mean to each of them? Do all writers see imagination in the same way? Look into Make Beliefs Comix if you need more food for imagination.
Read and enjoy the beauty of the 10 best sentences in fiction and nonfiction selected by the American Scholar magazine editors. Also see how famous writers used their favorite figures of speech. But beware of these 6 words that can ruin your sentence.
Improve your writing with TED Ed lessons from The Writer's Workshop & Reading Between the Lines, including Be a better writer in 15 minutes: Four TED Ed lessons on grammar and word choice.
Learn 7 habits of highly effective writers and 10 ways to make your writing fun from publication coach Daphne Gray-Grant.
College Admission Essay
These four college application essays were distinguished by The New York Times.
12 other examples of successful college application essays ... and even more essays that worked. Whatpersonal narratives and personal qualities do they describe? Finally, read these successful admission essays to top universities.
See what local universities: SDSU
and UCSD, expect from an essay of an undergraduate applicant. Also, read their advice on how to write a graduate and/or professional school personal statement. See also Purdue University OWL tips on Writing the Personal Statement. Finally, read this Sound Advice from an Expert and 6 Terrific Pieces of Advice on how to write an essay from Huffington Post.
Essay Writing Tools
Download the required scoring rubric for your writing: Paragraph Rubric | Long Essay Rubric |
Short Essay Rubric | Very Short Essay Rubric
Study this model essay outline on the differences between Polish and American cultures. See thesequestions for more ideas on how to compare selected values across cultures.Finally, use this worksheet to draft an outline for your EL Civics essay.
K. Livingston's step-by-step Guide to Writing a Basic Essay (with apdf and a sample essay and
summarized here). Read more about essay writing from Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL).
Learn engaging strategies to begin an essay.
Download this handy list oftransition words for writing. For more words, study this online listor the one from the UW-Madison Writing Center. Yet more
Vocabulary for Writing Essays from the University of Sydney.
Take a free online course from UC Berkeley/EdX, Principles of Written English. The course is an introduction to academic writing for ESL students and focuses on essay development, grammatical correctness, and self-editing. Part 1 is available; Part 2 and Part 3 are coming soon.
Plagiarism
Read Plagiarism and ESL Writers from the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL). Watch a YouTube on plagiarism from
Grammar Bytes!
Read these 7 Rs which Francisco Jimenez shared with our class. Learn more about his writing process fromthis interview.
Read this interview in which Michael Crichton talks about his writing methods and how he became a writer.
Read these quotes about imagination by famous writers. What does imagination mean to each of them? Do all writers see imagination in the same way? Look into Make Beliefs Comix if you need more food for imagination.
Read and enjoy the beauty of the 10 best sentences in fiction and nonfiction selected by the American Scholar magazine editors. Also see how famous writers used their favorite figures of speech. But beware of these 6 words that can ruin your sentence.
Improve your writing with TED Ed lessons from The Writer's Workshop & Reading Between the Lines, including Be a better writer in 15 minutes: Four TED Ed lessons on grammar and word choice.
Learn 7 habits of highly effective writers and 10 ways to make your writing fun from publication coach Daphne Gray-Grant.
College Admission Essay
These four college application essays were distinguished by The New York Times.
12 other examples of successful college application essays ... and even more essays that worked. Whatpersonal narratives and personal qualities do they describe? Finally, read these successful admission essays to top universities.
See what local universities: SDSU
and UCSD, expect from an essay of an undergraduate applicant. Also, read their advice on how to write a graduate and/or professional school personal statement. See also Purdue University OWL tips on Writing the Personal Statement. Finally, read this Sound Advice from an Expert and 6 Terrific Pieces of Advice on how to write an essay from Huffington Post.
Essay Writing Tools
Download the required scoring rubric for your writing: Paragraph Rubric | Long Essay Rubric |
Short Essay Rubric | Very Short Essay Rubric
Study this model essay outline on the differences between Polish and American cultures. See thesequestions for more ideas on how to compare selected values across cultures.Finally, use this worksheet to draft an outline for your EL Civics essay.
K. Livingston's step-by-step Guide to Writing a Basic Essay (with apdf and a sample essay and
summarized here). Read more about essay writing from Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL).
Learn engaging strategies to begin an essay.
Download this handy list oftransition words for writing. For more words, study this online listor the one from the UW-Madison Writing Center. Yet more
Vocabulary for Writing Essays from the University of Sydney.
Take a free online course from UC Berkeley/EdX, Principles of Written English. The course is an introduction to academic writing for ESL students and focuses on essay development, grammatical correctness, and self-editing. Part 1 is available; Part 2 and Part 3 are coming soon.
Plagiarism
Read Plagiarism and ESL Writers from the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL). Watch a YouTube on plagiarism from
Grammar Bytes!