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Language Learning Center. Writing Workshop for Multilingual Speakers and Writers. Matthew David Collins Pizzorno Adjunct Faculty Palomar College and ALCI: CSU San Marcos. Slaying more Grammar Demons: Punctuation and Parallelism in Academic Writing.

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Language Learning Center

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  1. Language Learning Center Writing Workshop for Multilingual Speakers and Writers Matthew David Collins Pizzorno Adjunct Faculty Palomar College and ALCI: CSU San Marcos

  2. Slaying more Grammar Demons: Punctuation and Parallelism in Academic Writing

  3. Upon finishing this workshop, you will be able to: • Work with our understanding of Academic Sentences to understand what grammar mistakes are commonly made. • Use your knowledge of Simple Sentence Structure to expand your knowledge of more complex academic sentences. • Began to understand the comma and semi-colon…..and beyond!!!!!

  4. Sentence Type #1: The Simple Sentence • Subject/Verb: Fresh Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius. • 2 Subjects/Verb: Fresh water and sea water do not boil at the same temperature. • Subject/2 Verbs: Fresh Water freezes at zero degrees Celsius and boils at 100 degrees Celsius. • What other combinations can you think of??

  5. Let’s Put some new concepts into Practice…

  6. Sentence Type #2: The Compound Sentence • 1. Coordinator (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so: FAN BOYS) • Too much sun damages the skin, but many people do not use sunscreen • 2. Semicolon and Conjunctive Adverb (See Photocopy) • Too much sun damages the skin; therefore, we should remember to use plenty of sunscreen. • 3. Semicolon • Too much sun damages the skin; we should remember to use plenty of sun screen

  7. Understanding a Compound Sentence helps understand… • Parallelism……

  8. Parallelism Examples…

  9. Contact Me: Mpizzorn@csusm.com Ideas for future workshops????????????? Sign in Sheet Questionnaire

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