Writing Basics Resources

BAO: Comma splices, Run-on sentences
Williams: Glossary entry on run-on sentence
Comma splices. From the classic 1918 The Elements of Style text by William Strunk, Jr. (1869–1946)
From the online technical writing resource made available by David McMurrey, read the section on comma splices and run-ons.

BAO: Agreement, Agreement of subjects and verbs, Number
From the online technical writing resource made available by David McMurrey, read the section on subject-verb agreement.

BAO: Agreement of pronouns and antecedents, Number, Person, Pronoun reference
Problem modifiers. From the classic 1918 The Elements of Style text by William Strunk, Jr. (1869–1946).
From the online technical writing resource made available by David McMurrey, read the section on pronoun reference.

BAO: Dangling modifier, Modifier
Williams: Glossary entry on dangling modifiers
From the online technical writing resource made available by David McMurrey, read the section on problem modifiers.

BAO: Mixed constructions, Parallel structure
Parallelism. From the classic 1918 The Elements of Style text by William Strunk, Jr. (1869–1946).
From the online technical writing resource made available by David McMurrey, read the section on parallelism.

BAO: Case (grammar), Pronouns, whom/whom
From the online technical writing resource made available by David McMurrey, read the section on pronoun case.

From the online technical writing resource made available by David McMurrey, read the section on compound-element commas.
From the online technical writing resource made available by David McMurrey, read the section on introductory-element commas.
From the online technical writing resource made available by David McMurrey, read the section on restrictive-element and nonrestrictive-element commas.
Parenthetical expressions. From The Elements of Style.
Series comma. From the classic 1918 The Elements of Style text by William Strunk, Jr. (1869–1946).
From the online technical writing resource made available by David McMurrey, read the section on series-element commas.
BAO: Commas, Punctuation, Restrictive/nonrestrictive elements, Sentence types
Williams: Appendix: Punctuation; Glossary entries on clause, dependent clause, main clause, nonrestrictive clause, restrictive clause, subjunctive clause
Compound sentences. From The Elements of Style.

From the online technical writing resource made available by David McMurrey, read the section on semicolons.
BAO: Colon, Semicolon

From the online technical writing resource made available by David McMurrey, read the section on colons.
BAO: Colon, Semicolon

From the online technical writing resource made available by David McMurrey, read the section on hyphens.
BAO: Compound words, Dash, Hyphen

BAO: Apostrophes, Brackets, Period, Ellipses, Exclamation point, Parentheses, Question mark, Quotation marks, Slash

In the online textbook, read the section on numbers and words.
Review the guidelines in the online textbook. There are no exercises for this unit.

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