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Sep 07, 2024
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Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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WR 091 Writing Essentials Lecture Hours: 1 Credits: 1
Details the fundamental structural components of writing. Primary focus is on parts of speech and sentence types. Secondary focus and eventual outcome is college-level editing skill.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Establish recognition of essential parts of speech for college level writing.
- Foster concrete understanding of four primary sentence types.
- Develop strategies necessary to eliminate primary sentence errors.
- Understand how to properly utilize commas and recognize impact on sentences.
- Master basic editing skill necessary for college level writing.
Content Outline
- Basic Parts of Speech
- Nouns
- Verbs
- Adjectives and adverbs
- Subjects and predicates
- Prepositions
- Phrases
- Clauses
- Independent
- Conjunctions
- Dependent
- Sentence Types and Diagramming
- Simple sentence
- Compound sentence
- Coordinating conjunction
- Compound sentence comma rule
- Using a semi-colon
- Complex Sentence
- Subordinating conjunctions
- Order of clauses
- Complex sentence comma rules
- Loose vs. periodic Sentences
- Emphasis
- Compound complex sentence
- Order of Clauses/Comma Rules
- Introductory Word or Phrase Comma Rule
- Transition Word Comma Rule
- Items in Series
- Attributing Quotes
- Adjectives Modifying the same Noun
- Offset Negation
- Other Parts of Speech
- Modifiers
- Punctuation in Context
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