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Sentence Revision: English 0950 March 2009

Sentence revision involves focusing on grammatical correctness, completeness, and style. Some strategies for sentence revision include reading sentences aloud to catch errors, identifying simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentence patterns, and experimenting with different constructions. Students should practice sentence revision because essays and portfolio pieces will be graded on sentence-level issues, and revising old essays and preparing new ones will require attention to sentences.

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Sentence Revision: English 0950 March 2009

Sentence revision involves focusing on grammatical correctness, completeness, and style. Some strategies for sentence revision include reading sentences aloud to catch errors, identifying simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentence patterns, and experimenting with different constructions. Students should practice sentence revision because essays and portfolio pieces will be graded on sentence-level issues, and revising old essays and preparing new ones will require attention to sentences.

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Sentence Revision

English 0950
March 2009
Sentence Revision Defined
Emphasis on sentence
constructions
Grammatical correctness
Sentence completeness
Style
Sentence Revision Strategies
Read out loud
Catch incomplete & fused
sentences
Identify sentence patterns
Simple
Compound
Complex
Compound-Complex

Note sentence length


Experiment with different sentence
constructions
Why This Matters to You
Essays 4 & 5 are graded in part on
sentence issues
Much of the work you do to revise
old essays will involve sentence
revision
As you prepare essays for the
portfolio, you will need to revise
each on the sentence level
English 1101 instructors will
expect a certain level of proficiency
Exercise
Choose a paragraph from your rough draft
of Essay 5 or the sample “This I Believe”
essay we examined previously
Identify some of the sentence patterns in
that paragraph
Look at clauses and the ways in which
clauses are being combined
Identify any incomplete or fused sentences
and revise them
Rewrite some of the sentences to vary the
style of the writing

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