To help students understand the form and function of a summary and to prepare them to write their own summary paragraphs. Students have read a sample summary (i.e., an abstract of an journal article) ...

An industry analysis study and paper generally includes an abstract at the beginning, sometimes confused with an executive summary. The purpose of an abstract is to provide a shorter version of the ...

Business documents -- such as letters, emails, memorandums and reports -- use paragraphs to separate different types of information, arguments and ideas. Paragraphs written in business format are ...

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This handout is available for download in DOCX format and PDF format. A paragraph is a collection of related sentences dealing with a single topic. This handout breaks the paragraph down into its ...

Two recent experiments highlight aspects of writing instruction that are rarely studied—or taught. Recent research suggests that secondary students can benefit significantly from learning how to ...

In her 1989 book The Writing Life, Annie Dillard describes a fellow writer who was asked by a student if she thought he might become a writer. “Well, do you like sentences?” the fellow writer said.

Has the five-paragraph essay, long a staple in school writing curricula, outlived its usefulness? The venerable writing tool has largely fallen out of favor among influential English/language arts ...

Headline: As Children’s Freedom Has Declined, So Has Their Creativity. Biggest decline? Creative elaboration--expanding on ideas in novel and creative ways. Have we done this to children, with ...