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Writing

This category contains sites which provide information, tips, guides, and activities to help kids and teens improve writing skills.

Topics include essays and reports, poetry, punctuation, spelling, and handwriting.

All sites suggested to this category must be designed for use by and of interest to kids and teens, and provide information to help them improve their writing skills.

Sites that provide help with other aspects of English should be suggested to the appropriate subcategory.

Sites designed for parents or teachers, or to sell products or services, will not be accepted.

English-only sites. Sites in other languages should be submitted to the appropriate category in /International.

Citation Resources

This category contains sites that provide information, tips, guides, and activities to help kids and teens learn how to create bibliographies and document sources for research papers.

Topics include MLA format and Turabian-Chicago format.

All sites suggested to this category must be designed for use by and of interest to kids and teens, and provide information about citing sources used in research.

Sites that provide help with other aspects of English should be suggested to the appropriate subcategory.

Sites designed for parents or teachers, or to sell products or services, will not be accepted.

English-only sites. Sites in other languages should be submitted to the appropriate category in /International.

Essays and Reports

This category contains sites that provide educational tips, guides, and activities to help kids and teens write essays, reports, and book reviews.

All sites suggested to this category must be designed for use by and of interest to kids and teens, and provide information to help them write essays, reports, and book reviews.

Sites that provide help with other aspects of English should be suggested to the appropriate subcategory.

Sites designed for parents or teachers, or to sell products or services, will not be accepted.

English-only sites. Sites in other languages should be submitted to the appropriate category in /International.

Handwriting

This category contains sites that provide educational tips, guides, and activities to help kids improve manuscript and cursive writing skills.

Despite the use of computers, legible handwriting is still an important skill.

All sites suggested to this category must be designed for use by and of interest to kids and teens, and provide information to help them improve their handwriting skills.

Sites that provide help with other aspects of English should be suggested to the appropriate subcategory.

Sites designed for parents or teachers, or to sell products or services, will not be accepted.

English-only sites. Sites in other languages should be submitted to the appropriate category in /International.

This category contains sites that provide information, tips, and guides to help kids and teens understand and avoid plagiarism, which is using another person's words or ideas without giving them proper credit.

All sites suggested to this category must be designed for use by and of interest to kids and teens, and provide information to help them understand plagiarism.

Sites that provide help with other aspects of English should be suggested to the appropriate subcategory.

Sites designed for parents or teachers, or to sell products or services, will not be accepted.

English-only sites. Sites in other languages should be submitted to the appropriate category in /International.

Poetry

This category contains sites that provide information, tips, guides, and activities to help kids and teens learn about writing poetry.

Many young people enjoy expressing themselves through poetry, and it is often included as part of an English writing course.

All sites suggested to this category must be designed for use by and of interest to kids and teens, and provide information about writing poetry.

Sites that provide help with other aspects of English should be suggested to the appropriate subcategory.

Sites designed for parents or teachers, or to sell products or services, will not be accepted.

English-only sites. Sites in other languages should be submitted to the appropriate category in /International.

Sites containing poetry written by teens should be suggested to Creative Expression. Sites concerning published poetry should be suggested to /Literature/Poetry.

Punctuation

This category contains sites that provide information, tips, guides, and activities to help kids and teens learn about punctuation.

Information may include commas, colons, semi-colons, quotation marks, and their proper usage.

All sites suggested to this category must be designed for use by and of interest to kids and teens, and provide information about punctuation.

Sites that provide help with other aspects of English should be suggested to the appropriate subcategory.

Sites designed for parents or teachers, or to sell products or services, will not be accepted.

English-only sites. Sites in other languages should be submitted to the appropriate category in /International.

Spelling

This category contains sites that provide information, tips, guides, and activities to help kids and teens learn about or improve their spelling.

Information may include spelling, words-of-the-day or spelling bees.

All sites suggested to this category must be designed for use by and of interest to kids and teens, and provide information to help them improve their spelling.

Sites that provide help with other aspects of English should be suggested to the appropriate subcategory.

Sites designed for parents or teachers, or to sell products or services, will not be accepted.

English-only sites. Sites in other languages should be submitted to the appropriate category in /International.

Dictionaries should be listed under /Dictionaries.information (editors only)

Citation Resources

Essays and Reports

Handwriting

Plagiarism

Poetry

Punctuation

Spelling