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Online Writing Activities
  assembling an online text

Do this: Constructing the Paragraph (interactive) . Print each self-test and put your name on it and hand it in. When finished, write a paragraph in your blog.

Topic Sentences and Paragraphs

Models and Exercises

Approaches to paragraph development
Using transitions in paragraphs

Models of various introductory paragraphs

Advanced Comp - 4 kinds of essays

Essay Sampler 1

Essay Sampler 2

Complete Writing Course - Academic

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Capital Community College Foundation

Flash tutorials on grammar and writing: no printable tests

Quizzes

List of interactive grammar and writing quizzes

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Confused Words Quizzes
  online practice

a collection of confused words with accompanying quizzes. Correct answers supplied at end of quiz.
http://homepage.smc.edu/reading_lab/words_commonly_confused.htm

an online quiz focusing on “are, our, hour”:
http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/year4/ourarequiz.htm

an online quiz focusing on “their, they’re, there”
http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/quizes/spell1.htm

Posted by Michael L Umphrey on 10/10 at 12:48 PM
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Style guide for PHS English
  Citations, notecards, etc.

phs_style_guide.pdf

Posted by Michael L Umphrey on 10/06 at 08:09 AM
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Parallel Structure Self-Test
  Think you understand parallelism?

An explanation of parallel structure

A brief explanation of parallel structure

Take this test online to check your understanding

Another test over parallel structure

Posted by Michael L Umphrey on 09/28 at 10:08 PM
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English 11:

Tue, Nov 24
Assignment: Eng11: Presentations on Romanticism

Objective: understand the historical and cultural background out of which Romanticism emerged.

If you are absent when your presentation is due, submit a 750-word essay on your topic to http://www.turnitin.com. The class id and password is on Moodle (at the top of the page).

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