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Readability
Credibility
TYPES OF ERRORS
Wrong-word errors
Punctuation errors
Usage errors
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Wrong Meaning
Use a dictionary.
Be careful using the thesaurus.
Watch out for words with the wrong shade of meaning or the
wrong meaning altogether.
You're / Your
Who's / Whose
Affect / Effect
To / Too / Two
I am going to the store. (preposition)
She decided to go along too. (adv. also)
My jacket is too small. (adv. to an excessive amount)
I have two buttons missing. (number)
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COMMAS
Use a comma and a coordinating conjunction
(and, but, for, or, nor, so, yet) to join two
independent clauses.
The game was over, but the crowd refused to leave.
Yesterday was her birthday, so they went out to dinner.
COMMAS
SEMICOLONS
SEMICOLONS
COLONS
APOSTROPHES
Use an apostrophe to create a contraction (but
dont use contractions in your academic writing!).
I dont like him very much.
QUOTATION MARKS
QUOTATION MARKS
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FRAGMENTS
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FRAGMENT EXAMPLES
RUN-ON SENTENCES
A run-on sentence is sentence comprised of two
or more independent clauses not properly
separated.
Lack of punctuation and/or conjunctions
Incorrect punctuation
A comma splicetwo independent clauses joined
by a commais a run-on sentence.
A run-on sentence is not simply a long sentence.
RUN-ON SENTENCES
Long sentences can be grammatically correct.
During the 1960s, development thinking, encompassing both
ideology and strategy, prioritized economic growth and the
application of modern scientific and technical knowledge as
the route to prosperity in the underdeveloped world and
defined the "global development problem" as one in which
less developed nations needed to "catch up" with the West
and enter the modern age of capitalism and liberal
democracy, in short, to engage in a form of modernization
that was equated with westernization (and an associated
faith in the rationality of science and technology). (86
words)
RUN-ON EXAMPLES
My favorite Mediterranean spread is hummus it
is very garlicky.
It is nearly half past five, we cannot reach town
before dark.
DANGLING PARTICIPLES
DANGLING PARTICIPLE
VERB TENSE
PRONOUN/ANTECEDENT
AGREEMENT
Pronouns are words that take the place of
nouns.
SUBJECT/VERB AGREEMENT
Rule of thumb:
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EDITING YOURSELF
AVAILABLE RESOURCES
Books
A good dictionary/thesaurus
Style guides (APA, MLA, Turabian)
Strunk & Whites classic The Elements of Style, and others
Web resources
www.liberty.edu/universitywritingprogram
http://owl.english.purdue.edu
Be sure to use credible websites!
People
Email: graduatewriting@liberty.edu
Call: (434) 592-4727
Email: undergraduatewriting@liberty.edu
Call: (434) 592-3174
Email: onlinewriting@liberty.edu
Web: www.liberty.edu/onlinewritingcenter
REFERENCES
http://vdvdvdvdvdvdvdv.blogspot.com/2012/02/5-common-englishgrammar-mistakes.html#!/2012/02/5-common-english-grammarmistakes.html
http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/fragments-and-run-ons/
http://booksoulmates.blogspot.com/2011/02/grammar-101apostrophes.html
http://www.englishliteraturenotes.com/Grammar/Fragments.html
http://www.prismnet.com/~hcexres/style/long_sentences.html
http://www.iup.edu/page.aspx?id=62009
http://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl/agreement_pa.htm
http://www.liberty.edu/media/2030/Common%20Punctuation
%20Errors.ppt