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Pre-Grade Your Paper: Free Online Grammar Checker, Proofreader, and More "PaperRater.com is a free resource, developed and maintained by linguistics professionals and graduate students. PaperRater.com is used by schools and universities in over 46 countries to help students improve their writing. PaperRater.com combines the power of natural language processing (NLP), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, information retrieval (IR), computational linguistics, data mining, and advanced pattern matching (APM). We offer the most powerful writing tool available on the internet today."

Miguel Guhlin has provide this great insight to resources assisting in digitizing writing. This was created as a reflection upon his experience in the Abydos program. Much of it goes along with Six Traits of Writing.

Very nice writing that introduces Storybird as a digital storytelling tool.  It provides an overview as well as advice on how-to use the resource. 

activities to use to help with creative writing.

Resources to help improve writing

Science accounts for more of the texts surviving from antiquity than any other sort of writing, and yet is rarely studied or even read because the texts are relatively hard to find in translation.\n\nMr. Keyser, with Georgia L. Irby-Massie, wrote the science source book: Greek Science of the Hellenistic Era: A Sourcebook w/ updated translations

This would be a valuable library resource for education majors; an especially valuable personal resource for science/math/history teachers interested in the real story of the sophisticated level of knowledge in "ancient" times".

you will find prompts, lessons, and resources that were created and shared--and then posted here--during workshops and in-service classes sponsored by the NNWP.

The Purdue OWL website offers over writing 200 free resources.

VerbaLearn, Repeat After US, eSchool News on National Writing Project

Copy in your writing and let SpellJax check it for you.

These 20 plots are collected by the Tennessee Screenwriting Association. They are providing the resources to assist in developing stronger writers.