This lesson introduces the concept of proofreading. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Proofreading." [3:22]

This video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, explores how a classroom teacher chose a topic for a writing assignment.

This PBL lesson will set writing expectations for the class at the beginning of the year. By creating a rubric for writing, students will examine the language of the standards, identify nunanced differences in criteria for different scores on writing assessments, establish expectations for writing during the school year, and collaborate with peers to engage in creating an authentic product.  

An editing/proofreading checklist is often helpful when you read your own work, or someone else's. This site helps you edit for capitalization, sentence fragments, verb tense, and punctuation. Included is a brief video about sentence fragments. W.9-10.5 Writing Process

The section on Common Types of Writing Assignments is a particularly helpful piece of this site. Learn how to approach a wide variety of writing tasks from lab reports to literary reviews. Then use the rest of the site to learn how to polish your writing.

A customer service representative at a logistics company explains the steps he takes to prepares to write an email to a customer.

When you write something for work, planning is an important first step and should include what do you want to say, who is your audience, and what is your format.

In the construction industry, written communication may be used to document things that happened or need to happen, make orders, and ask and answer questions. To write effective messages, follow a proven process for writing.

People in the information technology industry write for work for many reasons therefore, it helps to have a strong writing process.