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Sep 07, 2024
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Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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WR 101 Editing Strategies Lecture Hours: 1 Credits: 1
Covers punctuation and editing skills needed in upper level college writing courses and writing-intensive jobs. Course may be repeated for a maximum of two credits.
Prerequisite: Placement into WR 115 ; or completion of WR 090 (or higher), with a grade of C or better; or consent of instructor. Repeatable: Course may be repeated for a maximum of two credits. Student Learning Outcomes:
- Identify and discuss different approaches to grammar (standard usage, common usage, context/field-specific usage), including historical and modern usage.
- Examine beliefs and attitudes about grammar and editing.
- Consider reader expectation during drafting, revising, and editing and make choices reflecting increased consciousness about grammar and style.
- Use basic punctuation (comma, period, semi-colon, and colon) in a consistently correct manner.
- Identify appropriate situations for using less common punctuation marks (apostrophes, ellipsis, quotation marks, dashes, hyphens, and underlining).
- Identify and correct error patterns specific to the individual writer that interrupt meaning, using and/or applying effective individual proofreading and editing techniques, peer proofreading and editing techniques, recommendations from peer-tutors, Writing Center volunteers, and/or the class instructor.
- Identify the differences between Standard English grammar and modern writing situations like email, text messaging, and message boards.
- Use technology appropriately to efficiently catch and correct grammar errors while avoiding pitfalls common to many word-processing programs.
- Offer meaningful and appropriate feedback on the work of others using common proofreading marks.
Content Outline
- Editing Skills
- Difference between drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading
- What makes a good editor
- Common proofreading marks
- Historical overview of editing/grammar choices and changes
- Commas
- History of the comma
- Differences among style guides
- Comma with introductory words and phrases
- Comma with introductory dependent clauses
- Comma when joining two complete sentences with coordinating conjunction
- Comma with lists
- Comma with interrupting words and phrases
- Common comma errors
- Inappropriate uses of the comma
- Noun and Verb Errors
- Apostrophes
- Plural nouns
- Possessive nouns
- Contractions
- Special uses of apostrophes
- Collective nouns
- Commonly confused words
- Indefinite Pronouns
- Consistency and verb tense
- Semicolons and Other Limited Use Marks
- Semicolons
- Quotation marks
- Ellipsis
- Dashes
- Hyphens
- Parentheses
- Capitalization
- Periods
- Underlining and Italics
- Avoiding Pitfalls of Technology
- How to use spell-check and grammar-check
- Tricks for maximizing capability of word processing software
- Commonly confused words
- Standard English grammar versus text-speak
- Developing an Editing Style
- Picking a handbook/manual
- Workplace specific manuals
- Creating checklists for individual patterns of error
- Editing for different audiences
- Being consistent
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