End of Semester Grammar/Better Writing Practices Review:
- capitalization - esp. countries, subjects, & titles
- independent & dependent clauses
- referring to authors
- conjunctions - NOT starting sentences with conjunctions
- colloquialisms - appropriate use
- your ideas vs. the author's ideas - writing about the author's intentions
- God vs. god
- quality judgments
- summarizing, paraphrasing, and analysis
- titles - when to use italics, underlines, and quotes
- use of tense (present) when writing about stories and films
- sweeping generalizations
- use of affectionate terms in writing
- color vs. race
- vagueness - ex: "strong feeling" "that thing" and "and so on"
- writing about literature and poetry
- the oxford comma