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Journal 17. DO NOW. Does grammar matter? Why or why not? How does it affect your life?. Grammar Matters A Lot!.

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  1. Journal 17 DO NOW Does grammar matter? Why or why not? How does it affect your life?

  2. Grammar Matters A Lot! • Getting a Job It matters, for example, when you're applying for a job. In one survey of hiring managers, 75 percent said it was worse for an applicant to have a spelling or grammar error on his application than for him to show up late or—get this—swear during an interview. • Keeping a Job A utility company in Canada had to pay an extra $2.13 million in 2006 to lease power poles because someone stuck a comma in the wrong spot.

  3. Grammar Matters A Lot! • Staying Out of Jail Grammar matters even if you have an illegal job. A bank robber once got nabbed, in part, because he spelled "money" M-U-N-Y. The bank teller realized the man was such an idiot, he could be tricked into robbing the bank across the street—where police summoned by the teller were waiting. • And get this: A woman who killed her husband and then wrote notes to the police was caught in part because of her tendency to misuse dashes and quotation marks. All police had to do was compare her regular correspondence to the anonymous taunts sent to the police and they had a powerful piece of evidence against her.

  4. Class Notes 24 Trait #6: Conventions WHAT ARE CONVENTIONS?! • Conventions guide the reader through the text, making ideas readable and understandable. • Conventions = spelling, punctuation, grammar, capitalization

  5. Editing vs. Revising • Editing and Revising are an essential part of Conventions • However, editing and revising are two different things • Editing means rearranging your writing while revising means you are actually making changes to what you’re saying. (hint: this may be a good test question…)

  6. Examples of Editing • deleting needless words • correcting spelling or awkward phrasing • adjusting punctuation • moving sentences or paragraphs • adding or improving a transition

  7. Examples of Revising • reorganizing to provide a single, clear, over-arching structure to your paper • refining a thesis statement and supplying new evidence (DRAPES) to support it • deleting sentences that do not support your main idea

  8. Proofreading MUSTS: • Read your work backwards, starting with the last sentence and working your way in reverse order to the beginning. Supposedly this works better than reading through from the beginning because your brain knows what you meant to write, so you tend to skip over errors when you're reading forwards. • Read your work out loud. This forces you to read each word individually and increases the odds that you'll find a typo.

  9. Resources • Sample student essays • 6 Traits Writing Rubric • 7 Types of Introductions • Types of Conclusions • Class Notes • DRAPES • Peer Check list • Yesterday’s Journal Entry • Class dictionaries • Transitions

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