LA_bill_rights

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ The Purdue OWL is the premier website for finding all kinds of advice about writing.
 * Purdue Online Writing Lab**

http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=36 This site, developed by NCTE has a variety of plans for a variety of reading/writing assignments targeted at a variety of grade levels.
 * Read Write Think**

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ The grammar and punctuation on this site are a little higher level, but easily adaptable. The quizzes are good with explanations.
 * Grammar Site**

http://www.cite.auckland.ac.nz/ This site gives examples for citation styles.
 * Citation Sources**

http://www.writing.engr.psu.edu/ http://writing.umn.edu/tww/assignments/disciplines/engineering_assignments.htm http://www.ecf.utoronto.ca/~writing/handbook.html Various sites that deal with engineering writing.
 * Engineering Writing**


 * Name:** [|Power Proofreading]
 * URL:** http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread
 * Who It's For:** Grades 2-8
 * What It Costs:** Free
 * Description:** Improve students' proofing skills and knowledge of grammar with this fun and easy-to-use site. After a short animated video introduces Power Proofreading, students click the folder for their grade level and select a passage to proof. Each passage's errors focus on a specific skill, so why not preview the passages before class, and pick out the ones you want your class to practice based on your current grammar unit? Then, students simply click to delete, add, or edit as needed to correct grammatical and spelling mistakes. Unlike sites that have students correct grammar in a sentence or by question and answer format, this is one of the few at which students work within a paragraph, a valuable skill for success in standardized testing. Kids need more practice? Try some of Education World's [|Every-Day Edits].


 * Name:** [|Google Docs for Educators]
 * URL:** http://www.google.com/educators/weeklyreader.html
 * Who It's For:** The Google Docs and Spreadsheets tool allows sharing among students at all grade levels, between students and teacher, student and parent…..
 * What It Costs:** Free
 * Description:** Google and Weekly Reader have teamed up to provide free tools and materials for educators to use to teach "digital buddy writing," in which two or more students work together from different computers to write and revise the same paper at the same time. The buddy writing lessons and activities utilize the sharing features of Google Docs and Spreadsheets, which enable teachers and students to determine who can access and edit documents. Google Docs helps promote group work and peer editing skills, and helps fulfill the stated goal of The National Council of Teachers of English, which espouses writing as a process and encourages multiple revisions and peer editing.

Great tool for writing and especially PEER REVISION! Kids set up an account (works through email...could be a problem in our school since email isn't allowed!) and then begin typing immediately. A nice feature for forgetful 6th graders is an auto-save. Then, they can share or it just post it for the teacher to read. The feature that I think would really help with revision is being able to leave comments right into the text. It shows who left the comment and when they wrote it. So, not only could you accomplish some rock-solid peer editing on in a computer lab (no longer having to pass papers around to partners), but the teacher could point out flaws or strong spots. With students creating a bill of righs like in this module, the site has a collaborate feature so students could all work on it together (and it shows who actually wrote what) or share it with another class or school. The tutorial does suggest introducing this at the beginning of the year instead of the middle. Good advice. It does seem a bit complex, especially for 12 year olds so this would need to be a regular feature of your classroom. It would be a great use of technology for kids though and would hopefully encourage revision. -QUINN BALDWIN

I totally agree. This is a great tool for teachers and students. It would be a great tool in any class when writing papers. In Social Studies it would be good for persuasive essays or journal entries that the students can create for certain topics. (Trent Murner)