Writing

Anyone can string a few words together into a sensible sentence, but if you want to make your prose persuasive and your essays elegant, you need to take your skills to the next level. These articles can help.

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    How to Write a Good Descriptive Paragraph
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    Practice Composing Effective Topic Sentences
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    Process Analysis Essay: "How to Catch River Crabs"
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    11 Quick Tips to Improve Your Writing
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    Model Place Descriptions
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    Guidelines for Using Semicolons, Colons, and Dashes
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    How to Write a Descriptive Paragraph
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    Guidelines for Using Capital Letters
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    Classification Paragraph, Essay, Speech, or Character Study: 50 Topics
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    60 Writing Topics for Extended Definitions
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    50 Cause and Effect Journal Prompts
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    40 Writing Topics for Argumentative and Persuasive Essays
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    40 Topics to Help With Descriptive Writing Assignments
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    How to Develop and Organize a Classification Essay
  • Miss Brill's Fragile Fantasy
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    How to Write a Paragraph Developed With Reasons
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    Practice Creating Sentences With Commas
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    How to Write a Professional Email
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    'Whack at Your Reader at Once': Eight Great Opening Lines
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    Preparing an Argument Essay: Exploring Both Sides of an Issue
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    4 Rules for Using Commas Effectively
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    How to Structure an Essay
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    10 Tips for Using Abbreviations Correctly
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    Paragraph Unity: Guidelines, Examples, and Exercises
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    Rhetorical Analysis of E B. White's 'The Ring of Time'
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    State Abbreviations
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    How to Write a Persuasive Essay
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    How to Use Repetition to Develop Effective Paragraphs
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    Take This Test and Learn How to Make Your Writing More Interesting
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    How Many Spaces Go After a Period?
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    Evaluate This Student Essay: Why I Hate Mathematics
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    Self-Evaluation of Essays
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    A Rhetorical Analysis of U2's 'Sunday Bloody Sunday'
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    Cohesion Exercise: Building and Connecting Sentences
  • Stack of Newspapers
    The Case of the Missing Italics
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    Evaluating a Process Analysis Essay
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    Adding Commas to a Paragraph
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    Rhetorical Analysis of Claude McKay's 'Africa'
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    Check Your Knowledge: Using Contractions and Apostrophes Effectively
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    Using End Punctuation: Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points
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    Compose a Narrative Essay or Personal Statement
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    Revision and Editing Checklist for a Narrative Essay
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    How to Write an Instructional Outline
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    Hookers vs. Chasers: How Not to Begin an Essay
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    The Art of the Freshman Essay: Still Boring From Within?
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    How to Break in a New Baseball Glove
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    Practice in Using Capital Letters
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    Practice in Using Quotation Marks Correctly
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    Formatting APA Headings and Subheadings
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    Tips for Writing a "What I Did on Vacation" Essay
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    List of Topics for How-to Essays
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    How to Write a Character Analysis
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    Complete List of Transition Words
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    Ecology Essay Ideas
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    How to Write a Great Book Report
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    How to Write a Response Paper
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    12 Interesting Ethical Topics for Essay Papers
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    How to Compare Two Novels in Comparative Essay
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    How to Start a Book Report
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    Personal Essay Topics
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    Social Studies Research Project Topics
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