Think of a topic for your final non-ficiton writing assignment. This piece will be a mixture of a topic you know well, but it can also be a topic you can do some research on. Bring your idea to class
Study link 6.7
Spend 15 minutes each night for the next week working on these exercises. Watch the videos first.
Comma Rules: Test Prep - Read through the information on this link and begin working through the links below. You do not have to do them all, but you should spent time looking at a number of the exercises and the videos. WINK WINK - Some of the exercises below are on the test!
http://www.towson.edu/ows/ModuleCOMMA.htm
COMMAS and Run-on Sentences
Use these videos and the links to the websites below to help you practice the different 'uses of commas- rules''. To be successful in the test, you need PRACTICE. These online exercises are the best way to gain a lot of very quick pracitce as many of your test questions are asked in the same way as these online exercises. Spend 15 mins each night working through all of the exercises on here between now and next Tue.
MAKE A NOTE OF ANY QUESTIONS YOU GET WRONG OR ANSWERS THAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND AND BRING THEM INTO CLASS FOR DISCUSSION
Introductory Phrases and non-essential clauses
http://www.quia.com/rr/242173.html
http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/commas_1.asp
http://www.towson.edu/ows/exercisecomma4.htm
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/quizzes/nova/nova1.htm
http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/CommaTest.html#numone
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/quizzes/nova/nova2.htm
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/quizzes/commas_fillin.htm
http://www.quia.com/quiz/300693.html?AP_rand=1335472415
http://www.chompchomp.com/hotpotatoes/commas01.htm
http://www.writing.eng.vt.edu/exercises/punctuation1.html
Games
http://www.quia.com/rr/82028.html
http://www.quia.com/quiz/300693.html?AP_rand=1270897854
Mischttp://www.writing.eng.vt.edu/exercises/punctuation1.html
(click where you think the error is on the underlined words or click 'no error')
http://www.chompchomp.com/hotpotatoes/commas01.htm
Comma Splice
http://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl/exercises/comma_splices_ex1.htm
do exercise 2 also
http://faculty.valleycollege.net/apal/run-on_quiz.htm
http://www.towson.edu/ows/exercisecomma2.htm
http://www.writing.eng.vt.edu/exercises/grammar1.html
Exercise 1+2 only (exercise 3 only for experts!)
Only for experts...
http://www.chompchomp.com/csfs01/csfs01.01.htm
(Hard but fun to do!)
Fragments and Run-ons Explanation
Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4rN48QVyFQ
www.edzone.net/~wohltjen/StAIR_Fragments_Runons.ppt
http://www.uvu.edu/owl/infor/test_n_games/practice_tests/fragments.htm
http://www.shsu.edu/~txcae/Powerpoints/prepostest/fragrunonpostest.html
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/writerschoice/gp/hslessons/grade9/lesson8/exercises.shtml
http://www.quia.com/rr/450895.html
http://www.quia.com/rr/450936.html?AP_rand=1888308509
REMEMBER...From now on ... Only ever write a comma if you know why you are writing the comma.