This is a great question you might be asking yourself, and if you’re not asking it, you probably should be. If you are a native speaker of English, you don’t even have to think about it to use grammar correctly, at least for the most part. If you have ever watched a child develop language, you know that, at a very young age, children know what is necessary for language to make sense.
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Basic Reading and Writing builds a solid foundation around core aspects of the writing process: critical reading; methodical writing; research and documentation; practical grammar and punctuation. An optional module introduces core principles for college success that help students understand and develop good habits to improve their performance in this and other college courses. As the first in a three-course sequence that culminates in Composition I (college-level composition), Basic Reading and Writing focuses on helping students identify and apply foundational concepts and skills in reading and writing. Course content may be used for standard instruction or diagnostically to discover and address gaps in student understanding/skill.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Full Course, Homework/Assignment, Interactive, Lesson, Reading
A basic guide to the most common uses of MLA style, including color-coded example citations.
Material Type: Student Guide
This resource includes the assignment prompt and average, above average, and excellent student samples of narrative essays.
Material Type: Reading
This series of videos walks students through the writing and revising process for narrative essays. Topics include conclusions, dialogue, transitions, organization, etc. Each video is under 10 minutes long. Users may access two videos before being asked to establish a free account.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Interactive
Open English @ SLCC is an evolving digital book created and maintained by English Department faculty at Salt Lake Community College. It exists to provide our faculty–over one hundred full- and part-time instructors–with robust, flexible, and locally produced open educational resources (OER) that can be used for teaching a variety of courses across our composition sequence. This book is evolving and adaptive, offering a range of texts on rhetoric, writing and reading, all written by SLCC faculty with specific attention to the needs of SLCC students and the local conditions of our work and study at a large, multi-campus, increasingly diverse community college in Salt Lake City, Utah. Unlike a traditional textbook, the writing in this book invites remix, adaptation, and repurposing to match the specific needs of its users–SLCC writing students and instructors primarily–but also faculty and students at other schools, course designers, WPAS, and anyone else interested in open texts about writing, language and literacy. Open English @ SLCC is a community-authored, community-focused text, one that invites conversation, change, addition, and repurposing over time in the interests of attuning itself to the needs of those who use it. To this end the book invites public digital annotation through Hypothesis, allowing readers to add notes, questions, observations and resources directly to the texts. This ethos of shared knowledge, creative reuse, and ongoing conversation is at the heart of the Open English @ SLCC project.
Material Type: Full Course
Sophia.org materials, slides and audio about parts of speech.
Material Type: Lecture
Mark A. Tambone, Passaic County Community CollegeI created this process chart to aid students through the entire writing and editing process. Additionally, this chart helps students remain mindful of proper time management and scheduling which is needed in order to utilize our tutoring services. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Material Type: Module
This is a collaborative activity where students will rate the strengths and weaknesses of five sample essays based on the conventions of writing effective academic essay as presented in the course text and class lectures. Previous training should consider the various type of introductions present in the discipline such as inverted triangle, paradox, narrative, minding the gap, and interrogative/asking a question. Students read each introduction individually in their groups and then have a discussion on the merits of each based on previously established criteria, rating each essay from a one to a five with one represent the highest quality. Afterwards, the class can collectively discuss the results.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Syllabus for a course that reviews basic English skills in grammar, sentence structure, paragraphing, and essay development to prepare students for college-level writing. Intended for students who have had difficulty with written English, this course prepares them for English 101.
Material Type: Syllabus
View sample research paper and note the clear thesis statement, the topic sentences that advance it and the use of quotes from the poem and the literary criticism (as well as biographical and historical sources) to support points being made.
Material Type: Case Study
Writing guides abound, but The Simple Math of Writing Well is one of a kind. Readers will find its practical approach affirming, encouraging, and informative, and its focus on the basics of linguistic structure releases 21st-century writers to embrace the variety of mediums that define our internet-connected world. As Harrop reminds us in the opening chapters of her book, we write more today than ever before in history: texts, emails, letters, blogs, reports, social media posts, proposals, etc. The Simple Math of Writing Well is the first guide that directly addresses the importance of writing well in the Google age.
Material Type: Textbook
Places to find creative non fiction readings
Material Type: Module
Whether planning a paper, running a grammar check, completing a report, composing an email, puzzling over a usage or grammar issue, or writing a resume or online portfolio, you are bound to find the material and examples you need in Style for Students Online.
Material Type: Full Course, Textbook
This is a brief introduction for College-Level ESL students on how to use sources in their writing.
Material Type: Reading
Short Description: Write Here, Right Now: An interactive Introduction to Academic Writing and Research utilizes PressBooks to create and host a writing e-textbook for first year university students that would effectively integrate into the flipped classroom model. Long Description: Write Here, Right Now: An interactive Introduction to Academic Writing and Research utilizes PressBooks to create and host a writing e-textbook for first year university students that would effectively integrate into the flipped classroom model. The textbook could also be used for non-flipped classroom designs, as the embedded videos, diagrams and linked modules would act as an all-in-one multimedia textbook geared towards multiple learning styles and disciplines. The components of the textbook, including the embedded videos, could be swapped in and out in order to accommodate a professor’s best idea of his/her own course design. Word Count: 72471 (Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)
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Writing Commons aspires to be a community for writers, a creative learning space for students in courses that require college-level writing, a creative, interactive space for teachers to share resources and pedagogy. Our primary goal is to provide the resources and community students need to improve their writing, particularly students enrolled in courses that require college-level writing. As mentioned in 'About Us', we believe learning materials should be free for all students and teachers part of the cultural commons. Hence, we provide free access to an award-winning, college textbook that was published by a major publisher and awarded the Distinguished Book Award by Computers and Composition: an International Journal.
Material Type: Reading, Textbook
Full Writing Fusion course for North Shore Community College.
Material Type: Full Course
A brief infographic and description of the five basic steps of the Writing Process: prewriting, drafting, workshopping, revising and editing, and submitting.
Material Type: Student Guide
This resource offers self-paced modules that will help you review key topics in writing. Each module provides instruction followed by review questions. The modules can be completed individually or in sequence. After completing a module, you have the option to download or print a completion report to share with a tutor, instructor, or save for posterity!
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