ENGL 091 - Basic Grammar & Sentence Patterns

• Write narrative, descriptive, summary, and self-reflective journal entries with improved fluency, as demonstrated by comparison of initial journal writings with end-of-quarter writing
• Identify the basic parts of speech (nouns, determiners, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, conjunctions, and prepositional phrases) in their own writing and the writing of other
• Identify basic sentence core patterns in their own writing and the writing of others with improved accuracy (for example, Subject – verb; Subject – verb – noun completer (direct object); subject – linking verb – adjective or noun completer (subject complements); Subject – linking verb – adverb completer)
• Identify basic verb tenses (simple past and present, past and present continuous, simple future) in their own writing and the writing of others
• Describe and use an editing process that suits their individual needs
• Collaborate effectively with classmates to edit each other’s writing for mistakes in basic grammar, sentence structure, and punctuation (singular and plural word endings, subject-verb and noun-pronoun agreement, verb tense and form, noun and adjective lists, introductory phrases)
• Edit their own writing to correct mistakes in basic grammar and sentence structure (singular and plural word endings, subject-verb and noun-pronoun agreement, verb tense and form)
• Look up information about grammar and punctuation in a standard college-level writing handbook and apply it to their own editing
• Articulate in writing what they have learned and how they have learned it

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