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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**

http://www.criticalthinking.org/page.cfm**
 * Socratic Questioning


 * 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:** [|World Wise Schools]
 * URL:** http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/correspond
 * Who It's For:** Educators teaching at any type of school (public, private, home school), at any grade level (kindergarten, middle school, high school, college), in any setting (classroom, Scout group, after-school program) can participate in the Correspondence Match program.
 * What It Costs:** Free
 * Description:** World Wise Schools matches up Peace Corps Volunteers in the field with U.S. classroom teachers for a two-year exchange of ideas, stories, pictures, and artifacts designed to help students learn about the people, geography, environment, and culture of the world from the direct experience of Volunteers living in other countries. Teachers can choose any region of the world, any kind of program (e.g., agriculture, business, education, health, environment), and even a specific volunteer. To assist in the correspondence, World Wise Schools provides participants with a handbook of ideas on how to foster an exchange that is rewarding for both students and the Volunteer. The handbook also contains all the details necessary for signing up and maintaining the correspondence relationship.


 * Name:** [|Clover]
 * URL:** http://www.icctp.net/interact.php
 * Who It's For:** Students and Adults
 * What It Costs:** Free
 * Description:** Clover, an authoring tool developed by the IntraCultural and Cross-Cultural Teaching Portal (See below), "engages students and teachers in a technology-rich design process to construct animated narrative vignettes (simulations) that deal with school interactions. The tool leads students through the process of constructing a vignette -- writing a narrative, writing a script, sketching characters and scenes, animating scenes, and responding to vignettes created by other students….Clover executes on a PC and can be used with a digitizing pad or mouse device.


 * 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.