Academic Essay and Paragraph Writing Exercises and Worksheets.

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Introductory Academic Essay and Paragraph Writing Exercises and Worksheets

Basic or elementary academic writing classes usually focus on brainstorming, outlining, writing topic and support sentences and essay structure.
A teacher might also teach the various forms of attention getters, some basic transitions and different kinds of essay conclusions.
This page contains links to some possible worksheets for these components of an introductory essay writing course.

Academic writing basics

Transitions/linking words

Opinion/argument

Descriptive writing

Comparison/contrast

Narrative essay

Describing graphs

Writing reviews

Classification essay

Graphic Organizers/Pre-Writing Ideas

Brainstorm worksheet: cluster diagram (PDF)

Essay outline worksheet (PDF)

Outline worksheet for an academic paragraph (PDF)

Holt Rinehart and Winston samples: Graphic Organizers (one of the most useful resources on the Net for encouraging critical thinking foracademic essays)

More Graphical Organizers for Essays

Essay Writing Outlines

Essay outline guide & worksheet (PDF)

General Essay Outline (PDF)

Blank Essay Outline(word doc)

Comparison/contrast outline (pdf)

Cause/Effect Outline (pdf)

Finding & writing the main idea in paragraphs

Writing the main idea for medical topics
with picture cues (PDF)

Read the short paragraphs and select the main idea

Finding, underlining and writing the main idea

Other introductory/elementary writing activities

Describing How to Get to a City Location worksheet (PDF)

Writing simple sentences worksheet (PDF)

Describing a person worksheet (PDF)

Job interview & writing worksheet (PDF)

Describing a Room: vocabulary & worksheets worksheet (PDF)

Read the following example sentences and revise any that do not use parallel structure PDF)

Topic & support sentences, attention getters

Using pictures to teach attention getters (PDF)

Attention getters worksheet (PDF)

Writing essay topic sentences (PDF)

Topic sentences worksheet (PDF)

Writing different kinds of essay support sentences (PDF)

Write support sentences (PDF)

Writing main ideas practice- with picture cues (PDF)

Exercises for topic sentences (PDF)

Writing support sentences for an opinion paragraph about television with pictures (PDF)

Writing topic sentences and detail sentences lesson (PDF)

Paragraph writing terminology quiz (PDF)

Write a topic sentence for each of these paragraphs. (PDF)

Match topic sentences to the paragraphs (PDF)

Fill in each blank with the topic sentence (word)

Put a ring around the letter that corresponds to what you think is the topic sentence(PDF)

Write topic sentences for paragraphs-business related (PDF)

One sentence in each of the following pairs is the topic sentence. (PDF)

Concluding sentences quiz (PDF)

Concluding sentences worksheet with answers (word)

Concluding sentences exercise (word)

Knowledge about concluding sentences quiz (PDF)

Choose the correct concluding sentences

Other exercises for introductions, attention getters/grabbers / leads /hooks

Writing attention getters for persuasive essays (PDF)

Attention getters guide (PDF)

Writing Your Introduction: 4 styles with examples

9 ways of “getting the reader’s attention”