Writing to Learn—A description of Heart of Wisdom's teaching philosophy.
Writing to Learn—An essential book for everyone who wants to write clearly about any subject and use writing as a means of learning.
What is Writing to Learn?—Learn the difference between writing to learn and writing to communicate. Includes examples.
Writing Guides
Writing Tips and Tools—This site for students leads to many little tricks of the writing trade. Includes the writing process, webbing, figures of speech, plot structures, and much more.
Writing Center at Colorado State University—Among the most comprehensive online writing centers on the Web, this site provides more than 7,000 pages of information on writing and writing across curriculum. Key features include reference materials, interactive tutorials, and annotated example texts.
Purdue University's Online Writing Lab—This site contains writing and handout materials, as well as information about online writing labs; also provides a search index for locating information on the Internet.
Writing Paragraphs
How to Write a Paragraph—From Writing Tutorial Services, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
ABCs of the Writing Process—Elementary overviews each of the five stages of the writing process: Prewriting, writing, revising, editing or publishing.
The Writing Process—Overview of steps that every writer seems to follow in the creation of a paper.
Ideas for Teaching Writing—Description of the Six-Trait Analytic Writing ModeWriting skills divided into the six areas, or traits, that teachers value most: ideas and content, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and writing conventions.
Essay Writing
How to Write an Essay—Tips and instructions on how to construct a good essay for a university class.
Personal Essay Articles—A list of articles about personal essays from the Writing Center. A place to find information or to encourage others in their writing struggles.
Advice on Essay Writing—General overview of planning and writing an essay, from the University of California Extension.
"A research paper is exactly that: a paper written to reflect a search that will present information to support a point of view on a particular topic." (Basic College Research written by P. Berge and C. Saffioti.)
The ability to write an effective summary might be the most important writing skill a student can possess. You need to be able to summarize before you can be successful at most of the other kinds of writing, and it is an important part of note taking, too.
Quoting, Paraphrasing and Summarizing—The Learning Centre explains that quoting, paraphrasing and summarizing are all different ways of including the works of others in your writing.
Writing Letters
Writing Letters—Several sample letters and formats that will help you figure out how to structure your letters; from English Works.
Business Letter Unit—Learn the difference between a business letter and a friendly letter.
PIZZAZ Poetry—Samples and directions for several types of poems.
Writing Guides
Writing Guides—K–12 materials recommended by Heart of Wisdom.
Writing Software
Writing About Reading—An easy-to-use writing improvement software program designed to help students write an effective paragraph about material they have read.
Grammar Fitness Software—To help students improve their grammar skills, including usage, diction, idioms, grammatical relationships, and punctuation.
Paragraph Punch—Writing improvement software that helps students learn how to write an effective paragraph, through reason, detail, sequence, example, and causes and effects.
Write It Right—Software that targets common errors in student writing. Students learn to correct faulty sentence structure, unclear meaning, misplaced modifiers, and grammatical shifts
