- Mechanical Procedures Practice for the Final Exam:
- Take the "Mechanical
and Processes Section of the Final Exam" (edited
version)
- Other CD-ROM exercises
- Open CD-ROM The New St. Martin's Electronic Handbook
- Click on "exercises" in the lefthand column
- In the "Select a Chapter" box select Ch.
8 "Pronoun Case"
- Select items from the "Now Select a Section
. . . ." dialogue box
- Click "OK" on the "You may now
start the quiz!" dialogue box
- Note the "For help, see Xx" aids under
the dialogue boxes
- Look at the following list of CD-ROM exercises and work
on the ones that are not your strong points. If in doubt,
pick those that correspond with the items that are listed
in the memos that accompanied your papers when they were returned.
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 09 "Verbs"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 10 "Subject-Verb
Agreement"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 11 "Pronoun-Antecedent
Agreement"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 12 "Adjectives,
Adverbs"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 13 "Clear Pronoun
Reference"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 14 "Shifts"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 15 "Comma Splices,
Fused Sentences"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 16 "Sentence Fragments"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 17 "Modifier Placement"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 18 "Consistent
and Complete Structures"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 19 "Effective Sentences"
- Emphasizing main ideas
- Conciseness
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 20 "Coordinaation, Subordination"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 21 "Parallelism"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 24 "Spelling"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 27 "Diction"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 30 "Commas"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 31 "Semicolons"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 32 "End Punctuation"
- Periods
- Question marks
- Exclamation points
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 33 "Apostrophes"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 34 "Quotation Marks"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 35 "Other Punctuation
Marks"
- Parentheses and brackets
- Dashes
- Colons
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 36 "Capitals"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 37 "Abbreviations and
Numbers"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 38 "Italics"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 39 "Hyphens"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 53 "Nouns, Noun Phrases"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 54 "Verbs, Verb Phrases"
- Repeat Step C for Ch. 55 "Prepositions and Prepositional
Phrases"
- This week work on taking notes from five or more sources, and then
integrate this material into your writing.
- "Sources" can include notes on things like discussion of the
topic with your professors and/or friends, write-ups from displays
in art galleries and museums, notes from television programs like
Nova and 60 Minutes, notes from programs on Public
Radio. . . .
- Freewrite for Paper #4, your "Coffee
and Conversation" talk, incorporating some of these materials.
Freewrite at least two double-spaced pages.
- Bring this to the next class.
- Write your main idea in one sentence
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