Writing Skills

1. Writing Skills

2. Topics • Coherence • Peer Review • Mechanics

3. 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

4. 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.

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

6. Punctuation

7. Punctuation SVO

8. Punctuation SVO Joe writes his report.

9. Punctuation SVO SVOO Joe writes his report.

10. Punctuation SVO SVOO SVOVO Joe writes his report.

11. Punctuation SVO SVOO SVOVO Joe writes his report. Joe writes a memo and a report. Joe writes a report and goes to the pub.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. Punctuation Joining Sentences: S V O ? S V O , and : ; ( ) --

21. Punctuation Joining Sentences: S V O ? S V O , and S V O : S V O / list ; ( ) --

22. Punctuation Joining Sentences: S V O ? S V O , and S V O : S V O / list S V O ; S V O ( ) --

23. Assignments • Due next class: Revised Feasibility Study

24. Writing Skills