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The Purdue Owl has a variety of resources to help teachers and students with the writing process. The general website has links to grammar rules, exercises, and research styles. This page specifically focuses on the APA formatting and style guide. Students can use these links when they are conducting and writing about their research.

This graphic organizer is very helpful for teachers and students as they begin brainstorming and preparing to write persuasive 5-paragraph essays. Students will write a timed, persuasive essay for their final HSED Writing test, so it is important for them to learn how to quickly organize their ideas.

HSED students can take the HiSET Writing FPT 2 practice test. Then, the HSED teacher or students can check their test answers. This playlist of 25 videos goes through each writing grammar problem on the practice test. Students can select the question numbers that they missed and watch Jason Walker (Iowa HSED teacher) use a think-aloud approach to explain how he knew the answer.

The Purdue Writing Lab website provides teachers and students with information about grammar rules and opportunities to practice those skills. Online exercises include these topics: grammar, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, sentence style, and ESL exercises. Answer keys are also available for the exercises.

Students can find reliable information about the pros and cons of controversial issues. This website is helpful for students who are writing persuasive essays, practicing debating skills, and are seeking to understand different perspectives.

Teachers and students can use this site to create free blogs about learning experiences. They can create images and articles to communicate with parents, students, and a wider audience. This encourages authentic writing and communication.

Students can use Weebly to create a digital portfolio of writing, illustrations, videos, and other technology-based projects. Then, they can share these creations with an authentic audience.

This is a video about how to format a Word document in APA format. This is a helpful resource for teachers and students who are writing research papers.

This website is sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English, and it contains free writing lesson plans and resources. It's possible to search this site by topic, grade level, or type of resources. This website is designed for the K-12 classroom, but it can be adapted to meet the needs of adult learners, too.

This website provides video lessons about the steps to becoming a U.S. citizen, the N-400 interview, the 100 civics questions, the reading/writing section of the test, the interview process, and new citizenship. ELLs can practice vocabulary, listening, and pronunciation in the context of the citizenship test. Students need to register for this website, but it use is free.

This document provides an overview of the 2019 HSET exam. The ETS company explains each of the five tests: Reading, Writing, Math, Science, and Social Studies. This document is essential for HSED teachers and students so they understand the duration of each test, the number of questions, the format, and a breakdown of the content that is included on each test.

This website contains grammar exercises geared toward adult learners. Teachers or students can use these free resources, and it is considered "Grammar Instruction with Attitude," so the site tries to explain grammar in a style that doesn't look like it is designed for elementary students.