review of grammer
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REVIEW OF GRAMMAR
Wrighting good meens you got to follow allthe ruls; like speling, good, propper,
punctuashun and coreckt grammar.
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WHY THE FUSS?
CREDIBILITY: How can a persons workbe considered believable if that person isso ignorant as to be unable to writecorrectly?
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WHY THE FUSS?
ACCURACY: A misspelled word, amisplaced comma, or a missing verb canchange, hide, or confuse the meaning of asentence.
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WHY THE FUSS?
EFFICIENCY: A document that requiresmuch effort to decipher simply will not beread. Likewise, the message of a speaker who is difficult to hear or follow will simplybe ignored. In both cases, the effort is awaste.
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WHAT ARE THE CRITERIA?
Spelling Use a spell checker or a dictionary Use a proof reader
Punctuation Use a ___________
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PAGE FORMATTING
Use a cover sheet and NO PLASTICCOVERS!
Staple pages at upper left hand corner Use FLUSH LEFT justification (ragged
right)
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MORE PAGE FORMATTING
Double CHARACTER space betweensentences
Double LINE space within paragraph TRIPLE line space between paragraphs Margins: L=1.5; R, T, & B=1.0
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STILL MORE FORMATTING:Page Numbers
Front Matter (title page, table of contents, abstract, acknowledgements,and preface) the pages preceding thetext- are numbered using lower caseRoman numerals.
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STILL MORE FORMATTING:Page Numbers
The first page of text is page 1, but thepage number is not printed.
Others are printed, centered at the bottomof the page preceded by your name, acomma, a space, Page, and the pagenumber.
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SPELLING
Poor spelling reveals the writersignorance for all the world (or theperson[s] the writer is trying toconvince/impress/educate) to see.
USE A SPELL CHECKER!
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SPELL CHECKERS
Cant find properly spelled- but misused-words (homonyms).For example, using the word there whenyou mean their is both a spelling error and an inappropriate word selection agrammatical error!
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PUNCTUATION
PeriodEnds sentence and most abbreviations
Decimal pointURL & E-Mail delimiters
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PUNCTUATION (CONT.)
Question mark Direct, but not indirect (rhetorical) questions In parentheses to indicate uncertainty (?)
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PUNCTUATION (CONT.)
Exclamation point Comma
Semicolon As conjunctions with adverbs. Separates independent clauses.
Separates items in a series that containinternal commas.
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PUNCTUATION (CONT.)
Colon Following the salutation in a letter. Following the date, to, from, and subject
headers in a memorandum. To separate a statement from its following
amplifier.
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PUNCTUATION (CONT.)
Quotation marks Periods & commas stay within. Colons & semicolons stay outside. Exclamation and question marks may be
either in or out, depending whether it is a partof a quotation.
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PUNCTUATION (CONT.)
Quotation marks- cont. Enclose titles of articles, book chapters,
poems, and unpublished reports.
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PUNCTUATION (CONT.)
Use quotation marks to enclose verbatimphrases of less than fifty words. Verbatim phrases of fifty or more words
should be set off by indenting as an entireparagraph five spaces and using single linespacing.
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PUNCTUATION (CONT.)
Apostrophe Ellipses
3 dots (), each separated by a character space.
Purpose?
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PUNCTUATION (CONT.)
Italics Parentheses
Brackets Dashes
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PUNCTUATION (CONT.)
Hyphen Slash
Capital v. lower-case letters Numbers
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GRAMMATICAL ERRORS
Sentence fragments Comma splice
Fused sentence Choppy sentences Faulty coordination
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MORE GRAMMATICAL ERRORS
Faulty subordinationFaulty agreementsubject & verbsingular/plural
Dangling modifiers Faulty parallelism
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MORE GRAMMATICAL ERRORS
Inappropriate word choicesWords that sound similar (almost likehomonyms), but have quite differentmeanings.Idea (a thought) vs. Ideal (a standard of
perfection).
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DOCUMENTING SOURCES(CITATIONS)
The APA Manual is the standard for documentation formatting.
Language Skills Handbook (2 nd edition),covers most of the bases.
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MORE YET ON SOURCEDOCUMENTATION
The primary factor in formatting citationsand referencing is to be consistent.Nonetheless, the appropriate formatshould be used.
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