Looks different, doesn’t it? The college’s online software will soon be compatible with tablets and smart phones. Since my assignments often include this blog, it needed to be compatible with the various device screen widths, too. Click the post’s title to be redirected to another page to read the entire post. Colored text almost certainly [...]
Classic job interview advice: if asked to lunch, never order the spaghetti. It’s almost impossible to eat it with aplomb. Semicolons are a spaghetti dish. A critical eye can overlook a comma mistake or two without blinking, but a semicolon mistake might as well be red sauce on a white shirt front.
Even if you are the kind of writer who usually prefers an outline to be a casual construction for your own use, sometimes writing needs a more extensive master plan. Analyzing an outline of a published writer can teach us how to construct our own.
Although there are several places on the blog that mention thesis statements in context, this post singles them out for a more detailed discussion. “Thesis” isn’t a word often used in conversation, so first a definition, just to be clear. A thesis is an assertion that will be proved (or at least maintained). Two components [...]
A reminder: A phrase is a group of words that does not include a subject and verb. A clause is one that does. The four possible structures of a sentence: A simple sentence,* which contains an independent clause A compound sentence, which contains two or more independent clauses connected with a coordinating conjunction or a semicolon (see further explanation and [...]
