Guide To Grammar And Writing
Full of great tutorials, this website provides everything from the basic parts of speech all the way to writing the Argumentative essay and using proper MLA format.
This is a great source to include in any college classroom as a supplemental source (not just writing classes), as many students struggle with S/V, spelling, etc. The variety of options (suggestions, explanations, quizzes, etc) are useful, but some of the links are not working. Overall, this source can aid instructors in developing their lesson plans for Dev Ed courses or FYC courses where students are starting to grasp the ideas of ethos and clarity, as well as assist in other courses where communication is at the forefront. This website is a good resource and easy to navigate.
The pages are informative, with many examples, and students could refer to these pages when writing on their own. The organization of the pages is always clear with subjects broken down into more easily digestible chunks of content. I love the quizzes in particular. I had fun completing them myself, and I think students would enjoy the instant feedback. It would be great if this website included printables with condensed information so that students could have a grammar and writing aid always available.
I've used this site as a tutorial in my basic writing courses. Students find it easy to use and helpful once they get the hang of it. It's also a great link for students to work from at home. Some students struggled a bit at first understanding how to move throughout the site, but with a bit of help, they were soon pros. Students found the design fun and were eager to try it out, even if it was 'grammar.' They liked to compete with one another on certain assigned modules, or modules they explored on their own.
With my transfer-level writing courses, I've used this site for students who need some brushing up on grammar and usage. Again, it was ideal with this because they could do it on their own at home or in the writing center. If they got stuck, they asked me and we could work through it together. Technical Remarks. I have used the grammar and usage parts of this site in my classes for two or three years, and I have also spent several hours exploring its resources. Its general title is accurate, because the site provides explanations, tutorials, and interactive exercises for a very wide range of grammar- and composition-related topics. The explanations use traditional schoolroom grammar and terminology, but they assume minimal prior knowledge and they are informed by a sophisticated understanding of how language works.
Straight explanations are varied by PowerPoints, an 'Ask Grammar' section, an FAQ, an extremely useful 'Notorious Confusables' page, and various other resources. The site's design makes it easy for instructors to give students URLs for specific grammatical concepts and usage rules to be reviewed (or learned for the first time). Clear explanations are followed by interactive exercises that illustrate the concepts and test students' understanding.
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My honors composition students frequently report not only that they really like the immediate feedback but also that the first interactive exercise makes them more attentive to material they thought they understood. Finding links to recommend is made simple by the site's search engine, index, and drop-down menus. Technical Remarks. The pages of the site, including the interactive exercises, work well and nearly always seem to be available. The closest thing to a design problem I have encountered is having to retype, rather than cut and paste, when putting in a corrected sentence as an answer in some of the quizzes. Those who know what they want to look up will find the site relatively easy to use, although its size and complexity can make it hard to be sure one has found the best available section for the purpose. My only reservation about the site's helpfulness for general users is that it may be hard to look up a rule if one does not know what an error is called-but that is a problem common to reference works on this subject.
I spent time accessing sites for supplemental grammar exercises for my Basic Writing class at the university freshman level. I used this site extensively for its fun, educational exercises dealing with pronoun case, adjectives and adverbs, and modifiers.
The materials were helpful for students as they contributed to what we had addressed in class. Their learning was enhanced because they liked using the computer and said the exercises were better than doing in-class worksheets. Technical Remarks.