This handout provides overviews and examples of how to use tone in business writing. This includes considering the audience and purpose for writing.

In this lesson, students will use the poem, "The Turkey Shot Out of the Oven" written by Jack Prelutsky to explore verbs, synonyms, and poetry.

Detailed handout on maintaining style in writing, including avoiding wordiness, cliches, and maintaining verb tense.

In this lesson utilizing knowledge of sentence structure, students will read Lewis Carroll’s poem, Jabberwocky, focusing on the tone of each stanza and the variety of words that could be considered ’nonsense.’ By focusing on the adjectives, students will then replace those words with different ones in order to create different tones and point of view.