PART%20NINE

1
PART NINE
THE VISUAL GUIDE TO COLLEGE COMPOSITION
JOANNA LEAKE JAMES KNUDSEN
PowerPoint by Katherine Knapp Grubbs University
of Maryland at College Park
2
PRACTICE
Practice your reading and writing
3
PRACTICE READING

• Explore how sentences are constructed
• Placement of subjects
• Forms of verbs
• Punctuation
• Pick up information without really trying
• Use your dictionary

4
PRACTICE WRITING

• Review key concepts in building sentences
• Subject of sentence
• Word that indicates who or what is or who or what
  does
• Verb of sentence
• Indicates the actions in a sentence
• Subject/verb order
• Sentences starting with here or there
• Making words plural

5
PRACTICE WRITING Cont.

• Using the verb do
• Pronouns
• Modifiers
• Countable and uncountable nouns
• Adverbs
• Prepositions
• Idioms and idiomatic phrases

6
Visit the Companion Website to The Visual Guide
to College Composition

• http//www.ablongman.com/leake