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Basic Grammar Review Part 1 (1 Day)
VERSION: 1.0
Questions concerning grammar usage often come up at work. Do you find yourself at a loss for the answers? Although based on The Gregg Reference Manual, this one-day workshop uses its own text to cover the basics of grammar, word usage, and sentence completeness. Everything covered in this workshop has a practical application for writers. We stress Plain Talk principles and encourage you to take Part 2 of this course when you can.
Key Benefits
Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Understand the use of grammar in writing.
- Define and locate Nouns by Classification.
- Follow rules on when and when not to Capitalize Words.
- Form Plurals of general words, unfamiliar words, and abbreviations.
- Learn recent changes in forming Singular and Plural Possessives.
- Identify and punctuate Phrases and Clauses.
- Identify Sentence Fragments, Run-ons, and Comma Splices.
- Write Complete Sentences in Plain Talk.
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 by direct file transfer (FTP) 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?
All private and public sector employees or anyone who writes, edits, proofreads, or prepares final copy for distribution or publication and senses the need to go back to the basics.
Objective
(See "Key Benefits" above)
Course Contents
- Taking a Hard Look at Grammar.
- Understanding Nouns.
- Understanding Capitalization.
- Forming Plurals.
- Forming Possessives.
- Identifying Parts of a Sentence.
- Understanding Sentence Completeness.
Text
Participants will use a text entitled Basic Grammar Review Part 1—a book written by Dr. Sharon Bridwell just for this workshop. It offers seven grammar-usage and sentence-rewrite exercises and three mini-phrase/clause exercises.
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
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