English Grammar and Style

With the rise of social media and the Internet, many people are writing more today for different mediums than ever before. We'll present materials that cover grammatical principles, word usage, writing style, sentence and paragraph structure, and punctuation. We'll introduce you to some marvelous resources that we have annotated for your guidance. We'll show you video clips of interviews conducted with distinguished grammarians, challenge you with quizzes and writing activities that will give you strategies to help you to build skills that will enhance the quality of your writing, and invite you to participate in discussions and assess the work of your peers.

• How to reliably identify the roles and relationships of words in a sentence
• Mastery of grammatical concepts and syntactical strategies
• How to apply this knowledge to produce coherent, economical, and compelling writing
• Skills in critiquing and editing your own and others' writing