Writing Skills

Topics

Coherence Peer Review Mechanics

Telling the Story

Paragraph and Essay Coherence– One topic per paragraph– Logical transitions between sentences and

paragraphs– Topic sentences

Organization and The Use of Headings

Peer Review

Using the Peer Review and Checklist, evaluate at least one of your peer’s feasibility studies, making detailed comments on the paper itself and summarizing them on a separate sheet or via e-mail.

Hand in the review with your revisions next week.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Punctuation But Were Embarrassed to Ask. Everything.

Punctuation

Punctuation

SVO

Punctuation

SVO Joe writes his report.

Punctuation

SVO

SVOO

Joe writes his report.

Punctuation

SVO

SVOO

SVOVO

Joe writes his report.

Punctuation

SVO

SVOO

SVOVO

Joe writes his report.

Joe writes a memo and a report.

Joe writes a report and goes to the pub.

Punctuation

SVO

SVOO

SVOVO

S, . . . ,VO

Joe writes his report.

Joe writes a memo and a report.

Joe writes a report and goes to the pub.

Punctuation

SVO

SVOO

SVOVO

S, . . . ,VO

SV, . . . ,O

Joe writes his report.

Joe writes a memo and a report.

Joe writes a report and goes to the pub.

Punctuation

SVO

SVOO

SVOVO

S, . . . ,VO

SV, . . . ,O

Joe writes his report.

Joe writes a memo and a report.

Joe writes a report and goes to the pub.

Joe, tired from his meeting, goes to the pub.

Joe goes, dragging his feet, to the pub.

Punctuation

SVO

SVOO

SVOVO

S, . . . ,VO

SV, . . . ,O

. . . , SVO

SVO, . . .

Joe writes his report.

Joe writes a memo and a report.

Joe writes a report and goes to the pub.

Joe, tired from his meeting, goes to the pub.

Joe goes, dragging his feet, to the pub.

Punctuation

SVO

SVOO

SVOVO

S, . . . ,VO

SV, . . . ,O

. . . , SVO

SVO, . . .

Joe writes his report.

Joe writes a memo and a report.

Joe writes a report and goes to the pub.

Joe, tired from his meeting, goes to the pub.

Joe goes, dragging his feet, to the pub.

Tired from his meeting, Joe goes to the pub.

Punctuation

When the intervening word or phrase has to be there for the sentence to maintain its essential meaning, you may not use commas.

When the intervening word or phrase does not have to be there for the sentence to maintain its essential meaning, you must use commas.

Punctuation

Quiz: How should the following sentences be punctuated?

Swimmers who dive in shallow water risk their lives.

An office manager for a corporation, that had government contracts, asked her supervisor whether she could reprimand her co-workers for smoking.

Punctuation

Joining Sentences:

S V O S V O

Two errors:

•Joe goes home Betsy writes the report.

•Joe goes home, Betsy writes the report.

Punctuation

Joining Sentences:

S V O ? S V O

, and

:

;

( )

--

Punctuation

Joining Sentences:

S V O ? S V O

, and

S V O : S V O / list

;

( )

--

Punctuation

Joining Sentences:

S V O ? S V O

, and

S V O : S V O / list

S V O ; S V O

( )

--

Assignments

Due next class: Revised Feasibility Study

Writing Skills