WRT0901 Writing Better Sentences

This course is designed to strengthen students’ abilities in writing and editing sentences. To achieve these ends, we review the eight parts of speech, independent and dependent clauses, contractions and possessives, and prepositional phrases. Students do exercises to help identify and avoid sentence fragments and run-ons as well as misplaced or dangling modifiers. They learn comma rules, the uses of advanced punctuation such as colons and semicolons, and basic parallel structure. By semester’s end, students produce a personalized proofreading/editing checklist that they can use for future writing assignments. Assignments will be a blend of practice exercises and work with writing assigned in students’ other courses. The course meets twice a week. Credits: 0.000 Also Listed As: EN1010