Writing Resources


Transition Words

Writing Scoring Guide

Purdue University

Narrative Writing Topics 

Checklist for quoting passages

How to format dialogue

Words that describe people

Strong Verbs handout and video

How to format a paper for Ms. Garrett

Descriptive Words-Sensory Details

Words describing objects

Words Describing Place

Format your resources in OSLIS-Works Cited maker

MLA and numbers

​MLA Style spells out numbers that can be written in one ortwo words (three, fifteen, seventy-six, one thousand,twelve billion) and to use numerals for other numbers (2¾;584; 1,001; 25,000,000). APA Style, on the other hand, generally uses words for numbers below 10 and numerals for numbers 10 and above.

Essay Checklist

Narrative Checklist

Conjunctions and Kinds of Sentences-information and punctuation

Kinds of Sentences handout and video