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Carbone, Mary T. – Business Education Forum, 1989
To ensure that employees can write clear letters and reports, a first step is to make certain students improve their ability to punctuate. (Author)
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Punctuation, Teaching Methods
McCormick, Virginia – Learning, 1987
Suggestions are made for creative class activities that help students become more familiar with punctuation marks and their use. (JD)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Punctuation, Writing Skills
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Egan, Jackie – Exercise Exchange, 1979
Suggests the use of a chart to help students learn to use apostrophes correctly. (TJ)
Descriptors: Charts, English Instruction, Higher Education, Punctuation
Hopper, Vincent F.; And Others – 1990
Designed to be a handy reference tool for everyone who aspires to write and speak correct English, this pocket guide is based on traditional grammar usage. It is organized along conventional lines, with an easy-to-use table of contents and index. The guide encompasses a great deal of information on relatively few pages, and it would be wise for…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Grammatical Acceptability, Higher Education
Wollman-Bonilla, Julie – 2003
Letter poems make poetry accessible, meaningful, and fun. Letter poems are also an apt medium for exploring a defining characteristic of poetry--line breaks. Students explore letter poems and experiment with writing letters as poems, using the placement of line breaks to enhance rhythm, sound, meaning, and appearance. During the two 40-minute…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Lesson Plans, Letters (Correspondence), Literary Devices
Carlisle, Vicky; Smith, Harriet; Baker, Fred; Ellegood, George; Kopay, Carol; Tanzer, Ward; Young, Diana; Dujordan, Jerome; Webster, Ron; Lewis, Sara Drew – 2000
This self-paced text/workbook is designed for the adult learner who needs a review of grammar and writing skills in order to write clearly and concisely on the job. It offers career-minded students 14 individualized instructional modules on grammar, paragraph writing, report writing, letter writing, and spelling. It is designed for both self-paced…
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Grammar, Punctuation, Sentence Structure
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Timmons, Theresa Cullen – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1987
Indicates that using highlighters to mark errors produced a 76% class improvement in removing comma errors and a 95.5% improvement in removing apostrophe errors. Outlines two teaching procedures, to be followed before introducing this tool to the class, that enable students to remove errors at this effective rate. (JD)
Descriptors: Editing, Instructional Materials, Punctuation, Revision (Written Composition)
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Kaywell, Joan F. – Clearing House, 1985
Presents a humorous technique for teaching students about apostrophes. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Grammar, Learning Activities
1991
This handbook for writers is designed to be a practical guide to the conventions of the English language in its written form. The handbook also offers information and advice on composition and grammar and on a selection of other editing- and publishing-related topics. Chapters in the book are: (1) Punctuation; (2) Capitals, Italics, and Quotation…
Descriptors: Editing, Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar, Higher Education
Baker, Michael; And Others – 1995
The 33 activities in this book reinforce the rules of written English by providing students with practice in editing a variety of formats. The activities help students develop a basic understanding of the rules of grammar and mechanics (generally taught in grades 8 and up) in context and exercise their critical thinking abilities by identifying…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Editing, Grammar, Language Usage
Baker, M.; Block, C.; Borla, L.; Dietrich, G.; Hockett, M.; Holly, Thad – 1997
Providing grades 4-6 students with practice and reinforcement in editing for capitalization, grammar, spelling, vocabulary, usage, and content, this computer software program contains over 30 written accounts that have been sequenced from easier to more difficult. The program has 3 levels of play: beginning, intermediate, and advanced. At each…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Editing, Grammar, Intermediate Grades
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Judy, Stephanie; And Others – Exercise Exchange, 1978
Suggests the use of William Carlos Williams' poem, "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," as a way of demonstrating the use of punctuation to change the meaning of a piece of writing. (TJ)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Poetry, Punctuation
Graves, Donald – Instructor, 1995
Offers a step-by-step guide to teaching elementary school children conventions such as punctuation, spelling, and grammar and includes a sample minilesson and 10 tips for teachers. An interview with author Donald Graves answers questions about teaching writing. (SM)
Descriptors: Authors, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grammar
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Verner, Zenobia B.; Williams, Patricia – Exercise Exchange, 1982
An approach to teaching grammar through the use of speaking and listening activities is presented in this brief article. AUTHOR'S COMMENT (excerpt): Why practice the language simply by completing worksheets or exercises in the grammar book? There are various ways to teach language through speaking and listening exercises. These are several…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar, Learning Activities, Listening Skills
Howington, Cynthia – 1983
Perhaps because of their familiarity with joke telling, students often do their best writing when using humor. In both telling jokes and creating humorous works, students need to develop a strong sense of audience, an awareness of the importance of vivid description, a strong sense of purpose, and the ability to use punctuation for effect. The…
Descriptors: Feedback, Higher Education, Humor, Punctuation
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