HFT 4286 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Comma Splice, Semicolon, Split Infinitive
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Grammar rules, how a language works b) It can be learned: grammar style a) What is it you want to say? i) Subject (1) general topic that you"re wriing about: point (1) reasoning behind something (2) helps to organize the rest of the document, who is your audience? i) ii) Reader is the most important person to consider. If more than one audience, use broad approach: changes from one message to another; criical to the message. The subject performs the acion: passive i) End of a complete thought i: declaraive sentence, abbreviaion, exclamaion point. End of direct command/statement i: adds emphasis, exclamatory sentence (excitement) iv) Seeking informaion (interrogaive sentence) i: end of declaraive sentence, quotaion marks i) Set of explanatory details (1) separate opening list from complete statement (2) explanaion that comes between subject and verb: semicolon, add creaivity to sentence structure ii) Link independent clauses: colons i, direct reader"s atenion to what follows.
