Spelling and Grammar...how crucial are they?
Peter Elbow is currently a Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts and is well-known for his composition theory and has written several books including Writing Without Teachers. Watch this two minute video to hear his take on spelling and grammar during the writing process.
Top Five Tips from Grammar Girl
Affect or effect? Who versus whom? Lay versus lie? Ending sentences with prepositions and much more!
How to Use "Myself" and Other Reflexive Pronouns
by Grammar Girl
Today's topic is how to use the word myself. Grammar Girl says that how to use myself is among the top 10 or 20 questions that people send in to the show
Since part of the writing process involves editing our work, we need to know how to recognize complete thoughts and how to vary our sentence structure. This makes our writing more coherent as well as more interesting to read. Understanding the functions of parts of the speech in a sentence and their relationship to one another can be very helpful in learning to construct good sentences.
Grammar Bytes Exercises and Handouts
This website includes handouts, exercises and presentations to share with your students. The exercises include comma splices and fused sentences, fragments, irregular verbs, commas, pronoun agreement, subject-verb agreement, and word choice.
There are several PowerPoint presentations available within the Guide to Grammar and Writing. With over fourteen PowerPoints to choose from, you will discover how to diagram sentences, use apostrophes correctly, use correct subject-verb agreement, and identify the basic parts of speech.
Welcome to the new and updated OWL Exercise pages. The above link is intended to give you some background information, basic rules, and helpful suggestions about grammar, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, paraphrasing, and writing numbers along with exercises and answers.
Literacy Education Online by St. Cloud University
LEO provides online handouts about a variety of writing topics. If you've come to LEO to find some online information that can help with your writing, then you'll find an abundance of information including how to:
*plan, organize and develop an essay
*research, determine credibility of sources, avoid plagiarism
* grammar tips
Once you've determined that online sources can be used, you'll still need to assess their credibility. The following criteria for assessing online sources will help you to determine whether electronic sources are both professional and appropriate for your paper. Keep in mind as you review these criteria that many are based on standards used for traditional print sources; others are clearly relevant for electronic sources only.
Become Informed About Plagiarism
When writers intentionally or unintentionally present another person's words, ideas, or work as their own, they are committing plagiarism. Most students know that passing off another individual's paper as their own is plagiarism. However, fewer students understand that accidentally including someone else's sentence in their writing without quotation marks and a reference is plagiarism, too.
Comma Splices, Fused Sentences, and Run-ons
LEO: Literacy Education Online
If you need a brief explanation of comma splices, fused sentences, and run-ons, then this quick reference page is for you! These three types of mechanical errors are created by incorrectly joining independent clauses.
This website includes over 150 interactive quizzes about basic sentence parts, verbs, prepositions, phrases and clauses,punctuation, pronouns, spelling and much more! In addition, clicking on the NUMBER immediately before the quiz's name will take you to the section of the Guide pertaining to the grammatical issue(s) addressed in that quiz.
