Writing: Grammar, Syntax, and Style (WRIT2250)
Course level
Undergraduate
Faculty
Humanities and Social Sciences
Units
2
Duration
One Semester
Class hours
1L,1.5T
Prerequisite
#4 of level 1 courses
Assessment methods
Quizzes, Blog Entries, In-Class Test
Course enquiries
A/Professor Roslyn Petelin
Study Abroad
This course is pre-approved for Study Abroad and Exchange students.
Current course offerings
Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
Semester 1, 2024 (19/02/2024 - 15/06/2024) | St Lucia | In Person | Course Profile |
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Course description
This course will build on students' intuitive understanding of how words work, and equip them with a command of sentence structure and style by providing them with strategies to edit at an advanced level. The course will cover word usage; phrases and clauses; sentence structure and types of sentences; case of nouns and pronouns; tense, mood, form, and voice of verbs; modal verbs; agreement of subject and verb; pronoun reference; adjectives and adverbs; modifiers, conjunctions, parallelism; prepositions; punctuation; coherence and cohesion; figures of speech; emphasis, euphony, rhythm, and elegance; ethos and persona.