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Sites I have found or used to teach my university-level writing classes.
Updated on 2009-06-16
Created on 2008-04-08
Category: Schools & Education
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Basic English - Essential Lessons for Beginning English Learners - Kenneth Beare - Read on Mobile Phone :: Wattpad
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*Count and Non-Count Nouns - Understanding Nouns
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What are countable nouns?
Countable nouns are individual objects, people, places, etc. which can be
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Do not use a comma to set off a <I>because</I> clause that follows a main clause
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A because clause needs to be set off by a comma only when it begins a sentence.
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Comma before because
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The very use of "because" dictates that the following clause will be sub-ordinated in every case, and sub-ordinated clauses are not separated by commas.
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Chicago Style Q&A: Commas
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It might mean that he ran, but not because he was afraid. To prevent confusion, sometimes you need
the comma.
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Essay Structure and Development
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- Transitional adverbs (e.g., "First," "Then," "Finally")
- Transitional adjectives (e.g., "One . . . ," "Another . . . ,"
"The last . . .") - Transitional dependent clauses (e.g., "Not only does Gordimer attack racism, . .
.")
3. Topic Sentences should be developed in a parallel fashion.
Example:
Topic Sentence #1: First, Gordimer uses her skills as a writer to attack
Apartheid’s racism within its legal system and within its press.
Topic Sentence #2: Second, as a writer, Gordimer uses her trade to attack
Apartheid’s capitalistic exploitation of the working class in general and of the
black people specifically.
Note: "Parallel" does not mean "identical"; it means that there
should be sufficient similarity in the structure and representation of ideas to inform the
reader where you are in your overall plan of development.
4. Each Topic Sentence should be introduced by a transition.
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3. Supporting Points should be developed in a parallel fashion.
Example:
Topic Sentence: First, Gordimer uses her skills as a writer to attack Apartheid’s
racism within its legal system and within its press.
Supporting Point #1: She has been an outspoken advocate of those who have been
oppressed by the government’s white laws.
Supporting Point #2: Furthermore, she has been a fierce opponent against the
suppression of information by the government’s white news.
4. Transition words should mark the movement from one Supporting Point to another.
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It's Usually Not Wrong to End a Sentence with a Preposition
Some of the "rules" of English grammar that you learned in school were devised by pedants who believed that English was inferior to Latin and should be improved by forcing it onto the Procrustean bed of Latin grammar. But English is descended from an ancestral German dialect, not from Latin, and certain of the rules based on Latin grammar simply do not fit the structure of English.
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Strategies for Writing a Conclusion
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"So What?"
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Show them how the points you made and the support and examples you used
were not random, but fit together. - 5 more annotations...
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Successful Learning: Writing a Conclusion for an Essay
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If a fine introduction gives the reader a good initial impression,
a strong conclusion will leave the reader with a lasting memory. -
to provide
the reader with a sense of completeness or finality, to emphasise
key material, and to direct the reader’s attention to future
action or study.
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List of English prepositions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For use with Richard Lanham's Revising Prose.
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[Davies/BYU] Corpus of American English
I use this corpus to look up usage that seems strange to me.
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