More Writing Mechanics Ideas
From the UWS Exercise Book (docx / gdoc)
- Lesson Plan: Diction and Punctuation with Integrating Sources (Kevin Doyle) 213
- Reviewing an MLA Paper: Use of Sources 214
- Academic Resources Center: Signal Phrases 214
- Verbs for Signal Phrases 215
- Student Writing with Sources 216
- Exercise #1 – Active Verbs for Your Course (Ryan Wepler) 219
- Active Verbs for Discussing Ideas 221
- Exercise #2 – Postcard Exercise on Diction (Daniela Kukrechtova) 221
- Exercise #3 – Working on Tone and Style (Jessie Stickgold-Sarah) 222
- Exercise #4 – Correcting Students’ Own “Loser Sentences” 223
- How to Spot a Loser Sentence . . . 225
- Loser Sentences from Student Essays 225
- Exercise #5 – Identifying Lackluster Sentences (Tina Van Kley) 227
- Exercise #6 – Balderdash (The Ohio State Writing Program) 227
- Exercise #7 – Sentence Structure Activity (The Ohio State Writing Program) 228
- Exercise #8 – Correcting Slang, Clichés, and Informal Language (The Ohio State Writing Program) 229
- Exercise #9 – The All Purpose Writing Activity (The Ohio State Writing Program) 230
- Exercise #10 – Expelling Clichés from Student Writing (Kyle Wiggins) 231
- Exercise #11 – Comma Exercise (Jeremy Spindler) 232
- Comma Usage Guidelines 234
- Supply the commas 234
- Exercise #12 – Putting Punctuation into Practice (Steve Plunkett) 236
- Punctuation, Style, and Meaning 237
- Commas, Colons, Semicolons, and Dashes: A User’s Guide 239
- Exercise #13 – Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location 242
- Exercise #14 – Passive Voice & Weak Verbs (Cory Nelson) 242
- Exercise #15 – Integrated Lecture and Punctuation Exercise (Sarah Caissie) 243
- Exercise #16: Semicolons 245
- Exercise #17: Identifying Common Grammatical Errors 245
- Exercise #18: Comma Workshop 248
- Place commas wherever they are needed in the following sentences. 249
- Style Scavenger Hunt for Rough Drafts 250
- Some sentence elements to beware of using too often 251
- Making Passive Sentences Active 253
- Short Writing Exercise 254
- Punctuation & Grammar Exercises 255
- Why Do Word Choices Matter? 257
- 7 Principles of Highly Effective Writing 258
- Working Out Problem “To Be” Sentences 261
- Subject-Verb Agreement 264
- Lesson Plan: Exercises for Voice and Audience (Lauren Holm) 268
- Lesson Plan: Crafting Style for Great Writing 269