Most Common Grammatical and Punctuation Errors Made by Undergraduates as Perceived by Business Communication Professors.

McCannon, Melinda; Crews, Tena B.

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Publication Date: 1999

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Most Common Grammatical and Punctuation Errors Made by Undergraduates as Perceived by Business Communication Professors.

McCannon, Melinda; Crews, Tena B.

Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, v41 n4 p179-86 Fall 1999

Business communication faculty (n=187) identified the top grammatical errors made by undergraduates as follows: subject-verb agreement, sentence fragments, subject-pronoun agreement, nonparallel series, and wrong word choice. Top punctuation errors included run-on sentences, comma splice, missing commas, and misuse of the possessive apostrophe. Errors were similar to those identified in studies 10 years ago. (SK)

Descriptors: Business Communication, College Faculty, College Students, Grammar, Higher Education, Punctuation, Teacher Attitudes

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Language: English

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