Description:

Regardless of how relevant the content, if your letters, memos, e-mail messages, proposals or reports contain grammatical errors, you won’t be taken seriously. This course will help you avoid embarrassing mistakes in your everyday business correspondence by providing a comprehensive and lively review of the basic principles of grammar, capitalization, word usage and sentence structure.

Key Points
Through discussion and in-class exercises, you will learn how to:

-Identify and correctly use the eight parts of speech
-Spot errors of agreement, consistency problems and pronoun mistakes
-Write clear, complete sentences, fix sentence fragments and rewrite run-on sentences
-Understand and correct misplaced and dangling modifiers
-Use phrases and clauses effectively
-Change passive voice to active voice
-Use that or which, who or whom appropriately
-Abbreviate and use capital letters and numbers correctly
-Avoid troublesome words and phrases

This two-part workshop meets once a week over two consecutive weeks; please plan to attend both dates. Second session occurs on August 12 from 8:30am-12:30pm in Wieboldt 262.