Q Content and form, including grammar, can never be truly separated in writing. Your ideas are communicated through the form of your writing and are more or less effective depending on your grammar. To help you improve in this area, you will be keeping a grammar journal that will include four entries about specific sentence-level issues with which you have been struggling. If you are not having many sentence-level issues in your writing, consider this an opportunity to explore elements of English grammar with which you may be less familiar (such as gerunds, the hyphen, verb mood, parallelisms, misplaced and dangling modifiers, emphasis, or word choice). For each entry, you will include the following: The title of the entry The definition of the problem and how to fix it from The Little Seagull Handbook Your explanation of this definition (how you would explain this to a friend), including what is tricky about this sentence-level issue and how to fix it An example sentence, ideally from one of your essays, that includes this grammatical error. You must generate this sentence rather than using examples from the book. The example sentence corrected (highlight any changes) For example, your professor might comment on your Profile Essay that you wrote several comma splices. You could then choose this error, title your entry “Comma Splice, and follow the four steps above.
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