Grammar Tip Sheet Assignment

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Group Collaborative Assignment:  Working with Grammar and Style

Week 14

This assignment is due on:

Please have your Grammar Group Facilitator turn in the assignment for the group by the deadline.

Although you may not feel like an expert on your topic at the moment, you will spend the rest of this week and next week learning more about your topic, why it is important, and how to incorporate what you learned into your own writing.  For this assignment, you are your grammar & style group will create a tip sheet on a specific grammar demon or style stealer.

 

Resources:

 

Collaborative guidelines:

  • Your group must use Googledocs.  Be sure to login to People to get to your Google Doc Collaboration.
  • Your document wiki page should collate resources on this grammar topic.
  • You and your group members should select examples from your papers that use the grammar rule incorrectly, and then correctly.
  • Use the Writing Lab Grammar Sheets as a guide for the structure of your own sheet.


Tip Sheet Content:

  • Title
  • Definition of the grammar concept (with citation)
  • The rules or guidelines that relate to your specific topic in your own words.  You may refer to the corresponding section in Writer’s Reference (WR), the Writing Center handouts, or grammar websites likePurdue OWL Links to an external site. but do not simply copy or read the rules directly from these sources.
  • Why the concept is important when writing
  • 3-4 examples of the error from a real paper (1 per group member)
  • Tips for correcting the error (1 to 4)
  • 5 Web Resources that help to further explain the error (with citation) for example, you can find a youtube video, a website link, a cartoon that illustrates the error or the correction in a humorous way, an interview etc.

 

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