Writing Commons One

I think this is a very helpful chapter. Like Kelley said, the information is more applicable than a lot of the rest of the book. I doubt I will reference the section on sentence diagramming the next time I write an essay, but I know that I will have questions about punctuation. This chapter does a good job at organizing the different forms and uses of punctuation, providing useful examples at the...

I think this chapter did a good job of laying out the different pieces of punctuation and identifying different structures that make up syntax and sentence structure. I appreciated the examples and detailed explanations and exceptions. I agree that students should know the standard punctuations and how to appeal to the reader to make it as smooth and easy for them to comprehend as possible....

I think Chapter 15 is an excellent summary of the more applicable material in this book. While diagramming sentences is interesting, the knowledge of where to put punctuation is more useful. Similar to Easy Writer, this chapter lays out the basic rules and lists pages where a more in-depth explanation is available. Personally, I prefer the layout of Easy Writer to this chapter; the Easy Writer...

Chapter 15 definitely surprised me. I didn't realize how many different jobs commas, semicolons, and colons have. I use them quite frequently, but now I have a much better understanding of how to use them in my writing. What stands out to me most in this chapter is the idea that we need to keep the reader in mind when writing--grammar is essentially for their benefit. It is interesting how...

As an English/Education major, I come across nominalization in writing frequently. I usually don't see it in the novels/poems I read for class, but I have seen it many times in essays and literary criticism. I am not taking any English classes at this time, so I can't think of a good example of it, but I did take a class two terms ago where we spent a lot of time examining paragraphs for...

This class has changed my writing style very little. I am for the first time aware of the technical terms for the words, phrases, and clauses that I write, but I do not write them any differently. What has changed due to my participation in this class is the location of a certain punctuation mark (the comma) within my papers. Most of what I write for others to see now receives more careful...

Political Science is actually my minor, but I didn't think that examples of nominalization in French texts would help anyone. Until I looked for this assignment, I had not noticed nominalization in my class readings. However, now I can see that there is a fair amount of it in political science texts. An example of an appositive: "What we now call globalization-the growth of an international...