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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 those Grammar Demons: The Sentence in Academic Writing. Upon finishing this workshop, you will be able to:.
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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 those Grammar Demons: The Sentence in Academic Writing
Upon finishing this workshop, you will be able to: • Understand how an Academic Sentence is built from the ground up. • Focus on building your knowledge of Parts of Speech. • Apply your knowledge English grammar to vary your sentence structures from simple to complex…and beyond!!!!!
What is a NOUN…VERB?.... • SUBJECT…..PREDICATE?.... • (Understanding these, Leads to…) • What is an Independent Clause?... • What is a Dependent Clause?....
What is a Subordinator?? The most common subordinators are: (Understanding these ideas, leads to…)
THE SENTENCE • Now, that we have an understanding of what independent and dependent clauses are.... What is an ACADEMIC SENTENCE? Or better yet, what is it NOT?
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?? Sentence Type #1: The Simple Sentence
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
Come Next Week to… • Learn more sentence Types. • Sentence Type #3: The Complex Sentence • Sentence Type #4: The Complex/Compound Sentence • Learn some fabulously interesting information about punctuation and Parallelism.
Contact Me: Mpizzorn@csusm.com • Ideas for future workshops????????????? • Sign in Sheet • Questionnaire