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Review of Module 3: Common Errors

Key Takeaways

1. Review your work for wordiness. Never use five words when two will do.

2. Check your sentences for parallelism. Remember, words, phrases, and clauses within a sentence must match. Reading your writing out loud may help you pick up on the rhythm of your writing and identify rhythms that are out of sync.

3. Many of the errors we make in our writing are due to poor sentence structure.   Sometimes those errors occur because our sentences are incomplete or because our sentences run on too long without proper punctuation.   Stylistic errors can sometimes be harder to recognize, but learning about the importance of word choice and balanced sentence structure, or parallelism, gives us the means to control our writing and the impression it leaves on our reading audience.

Review of Important Terms

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Did I Get This?

 

Click on the "Common Errors Review Quiz" wording below to check your knowledge of sentence style.

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Level 2 Quiz: Common Errors

 

If you scored 90 points or above on the "Common Errors Review Quiz", you might like to see how you do on this "Advanced Common Errors Quiz".

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Level 3 Quiz: Placement Test Practice Quiz

 

This final quiz is for those of you interested in the Accuplacer test. It contains questions you might encounter on college-level placement tests.

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If you scored less than 90 points on the "Did I Get This" quiz above, please click here and review this module again before continuing on to the next unit.  

If you have scored 90 points or above on the "Did I Get This" quiz, Congratulations!!  You are now ready to continue on to the next unit.

 

Next Steps:

Now that we have discussed the fundamentals of sentence structure, it is time to learn about the small but very important pieces that help us organize our thoughts: punctuation. Punctuation gives our writing shape. It makes the purpose of each letter, word, and sentence absolutely clear. Without punctuation, what we write would be illogical, if not illegible.  

 

Before continuing on in this course, please complete a survey on the Writing Basics Unit you have just completed.  Click on the following link to be taken to the survey.  The survey will open in a new window.

 

Writing Basics Unit 2 Survey

 

Once you have completed the survey and submitted your answers, you will be redirected back to the KPC College Readiness Resources page.  You will then need to click on the Writing Basics course listing in the left or right navigation bar to continue on to the next unit. 



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