Course Description
Sentence mechanics are an essential foundation to good writing. You may have great ideas, but if your sentences are full of grammar errors, your reader may lose confidence in your professionalism, competence, and attention to detail.
Part I reviews the basic building blocks of good writing: understanding parts of sentences and speech, ensuring sentence completeness, and conquering common problems with subjects, verbs, and pronouns. Readings and exercises help reinforce your understanding of the concepts.
The instructor is available at all stages of the course for tutoring.
Outcomes
You will gain these skills:
- Identify and correctly use various parts of parts of speech.
- Recognize and revise fragments and run-on sentences.
- Recognize and correct common problems with subject - verb agreement and pronoun errors.Identify and correct dangling and misplaced modifiers.
- Proofread more effectively.
Assessment
You will complete self-check exercises and a mastery test (graded by the instructor) taken at end of the class.
- Teacher: Eric Machan Howd