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Basic Grammar Review
VERSION: 1.1 (May 10, 2006)
Do questions about grammar often come up at work? Do you find yourself at a loss for the answers? When you look at grammar books, do you find yourself more confused than before you looked? How many of the latest changes in grammar do you know? While based on The
Gregg Reference Manual, this course uses its own text to cover the basics of grammar, word usage, spelling, and punctuation. Everything covered in this course has a practical application for writers. This course partners well with the one-day Punctuation Skills course to provide an in-depth grammar and punctuation review.
Key Benefits
- Learn how to apply major grammar rules.
- Review major parts of speech and sentence structure.
- Learn how to apply major punctuation rules.
- Learn how to construct complete sentences.
Style of Instruction
Onsite: Taught by one of our instructors in a training room, using audio/visual presentations and in-class exercises.
Online: You will download text materials and instructional movies to view. You will view the materials and complete assignments at your own pace, then submit them electronically to your instructor. You may opt to meet your instructor at regular intervals in a live audio/video conference room to discuss your work.
Who Should Take this Course?
Anyone who writes, edits, proofreads, or prepares final copy to distribute or publish and senses the need to go back to the basics.
Objective
You will learn to apply the correct rules for writing to your memos, email messages, reports, Web pages, specifications, instruction manuals, sales brochures, and other documents.
Course Contents
- Overview on Why We Should Study Grammar.
- Understanding Nouns:
- Common vs. Proper Nouns
- Understanding Capitalization of Nouns
- Forming Plurals and Possessives
- Understanding Pronouns:
- Antecedent Agreement
- Nominative and Objective Case
- Understanding Adjectives, Adverbs, and Prepositions.
- Understanding Verbs and Subject/Verb Agreement.
- Identifying Parts of a Sentence.
- Using Major Punctuation Marks Effectively.
Text
Onsite participants will use Basic Grammar Review—a book written by Dr. Sharon Bridwell just for this course. It offers 13 grammar exercises and 10 mini-exercises in both grammar and punctuation usage.
Online participants will download their materials.
Prerequisites
To profit from this course you need to:
- Write documents in understandable English.
- Slowly review the material and complete all exercises and assignments without the help of others.
- Navigate a Web site using hypertext links (online course only).
- Send and reply to e-mail messages (online course only).
What we require of you
For the onsite class, you must show up for class on time and remain until it is completed (approximately 7-8 hours each day). You will interact with other learners, complete writing exercises, and ask questions when confused.
For the online class, you will take this course at your own pace. Although we estimate you can complete this course in 14 hours, you have up to ten weeks. If you are new to self-directed learning, you may find this style of learning fresh—and a bit frightening. You learn by doing. You alone are responsible for your own learning. That means you must have the drive and discipline to see the course through.
Before you start
- Review your own schedule to make sure you have the time to give to this learning process.
- For the onsite class you have no pre-class readings or activities.
- For the online class you need to review this document, the terms and conditions, and technical requirements to make sure that you meet all of them (see links below).
- After reading this entire description, proceed to the Register page when you are ready to sign up.
Instructor
Write Words, American Writing Services provides all instructors. For more information on our instructors, click here.
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