English Grammar and Style For Beginners
Instructors –Roslyn Petelin ( Honorary Associate Professor at The University of Queensland )
Learn key concepts and strategies in grammar and style to help enhance your writing and confidently respond to the demand of high levels of literacy in the 21st century.
About this course
Nowadays, many people are writing more today for different mediums than ever before. We’ll present materials that cover grammatical principles, word usage, writing style, sentence and paragraph structure, and punctuation. We’ll introduce you to some marvelous resources that we have annotated for your guidance. This course teaches you video clips of interviews conducted with distinguished grammarians, challenge you with quizzes and writing activities that will give you strategies to help you to build skills that will enhance the quality of your writing, and invite you to participate in discussions and assess the work of your peers.
What you’ll learn in this course
In the end of this course, you’ll learn
- How to apply this knowledge to produce economical, and compelling writing
- Mastery of grammatical concepts and syntactical strategies
- How to reliably identify the roles and relationships of words in a sentence
- Skills in critiquing and editing your own and others’ writing
Approach: Video interviews, mini-lectures, readings, quizzes, writing activities, and writing assignments.
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