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This page from OWL at Purdue looks at the basics when writing a paragraph.

Links to separate pages about parts of a paragraph, how to write one and the different kinds of paragraphs.

Subject: A Tall Tale speech given within 7 minutes.

Biography

The author of the short story, "Walking Out".

Joyce Carol Oates's short story based on the crimes of Charles Howard 'Smitty' Schmid, Jr. (July 8, 1942 - March 30, 1975), also known as "The Pied Piper of Tucson." He was an American serial killer. His crimes, profiled in the March 4, 1966 issue of Life Magazine, are the basis for "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?," a short story by Joyce Carol Oates. The 1971 movie The Todd Killings is based on the Schmid case as was the 1994 film Dead Beat.

Description and 40 minute recording of it being read.

The site contains short stories that are organized into nine categories: fiction, romance, crime, sci-fi & fantasy, humor, horror, interactive, children's and non-fiction. You can search for stories over all the categories by entering the name of an author, story or a description of a story into the search text field. All stories are listed with brief summaries - clicking on the story title will take you to the page containing the story itself. Clicking on an author's name will list all that author's stories along with further information such as a biography and links. All short stories are available online and can be downloaded and printed.

A website that contains worksheets for writing for different types of audiences, fact vs. opinion, capitalization, punctuation, subject/predicate, subject-verb agreement, pronouns\ antecedent, and run-on sentences.

Draw and share flowcharts and diagrams online

VYM (View Your Mind) is a tool to generate and manipulate maps which show your thoughts. Such maps can help you to improve your creativity and effectivity. You can use them for time management, to organize tasks, to get an overview over complex contexts

A site containing graphic organizers.

A Homework Online Study Guide

A variety of graphic organizers.

CRISS strategies for story organizations.

From persuasive to narrative. 501 writing prompts.

Many examples of words that are used incorrectly or that are often confused. They tend to be confused because of similarity in spelling or pronunciation.

A section of the English User Guides that attempts to clarify differences in meaning between words which, because they look or sound very similar, tend to cause confusion among both foreign students of English and native speakers alike.

A three page PDF /worksheet for sentence fragments and run-ons.