<p> Resources for Addressing Some Common Writing Issues Related to SWE Usage </p><p>Editing Worksheet</p><p>Prepared by Professor Birtchett</p><p>Adjectives</p><p> http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0200807.html  http://www.writesearch.com/articles/articledetail.php?artid=351&catid=282</p><p>Adverbs</p><p> http://www.suite101.com/content/how-writers-misuse-adverbs-a111107  http://www.faculty.valenciacc.edu/ataylor/.../Adjectives%20and%20 Adverbs .ppt</p><p>Apostrophe</p><p> http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/ppt/apostrophe.pps</p><p>Articles: Definite and Indefinite</p><p> http://www.epcc.edu/Portals/230/PowerPoint/UseOfDefininteIndefiniteArticles.ppt</p><p>Personal Pronouns in Academic Writing</p><p> http://unilearning.uow.edu.au/academic/2div.html</p><p> http://www.blinn.edu/brazos/humanities/writingcenter/Handouts/Formal%20Academic%20Writing.pdf</p><p>Awkward Sentences</p><p> http://www.people.stfx.ca/ldevilli/ awkward %20 sentences .ppt</p><p> http://www.merrimack.edu/about/offices_services/purchasing/Documents/AvoidingAwkwardSentences. pdf</p><p>Capitalization</p><p> http://xnet.rrc.mb.ca/leshanson/Hot_Potato/Grammar_PPT/Capitalization.ppt</p><p>Comma Splice</p><p> http://www.daltonstate.edu/esl/Comma%20Splices.ppt#257,2</p><p>1 Conditional Tense</p><p> Will vs. Would http://www.differencebetween.net/language/difference-between-would-and-will/</p><p>Conjunctions</p><p> http://handbook.grammarly.com/grammar/conjunctions/7/starting-a-sentence-with-a-conjunction/</p><p>Consistency of Verb Tense</p><p> http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html</p><p> http://www.english-room.com/pasttense_6a.html</p><p>Contractions – Avoid in Academic Writing</p><p> http://www.supaproofread.com/documents/informal-contractions.pdf</p><p>Coordinating Conjunctions</p><p> http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/598/01/</p><p> http://faculty.mckendree.edu/writing_handouts/Punctuation/andbut.htm</p><p>Dangling Modifiers</p><p> http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/597/01/  http://www.towson.edu/ows/exercisedmm.htm  http://aliscot.com/bigdog/dmmm_exercise.htm</p><p>Helping Verbs 2  http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/verb/1htest.htm</p><p>Infinitives</p><p> http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/eoimarisa-76679-ing-or-infinitive-grammar-inginfinitive- education-ppt-powerpoint/</p><p> www.ekof.bg.ac.yu/.../1115Passive%20+%20 infinitive %20-%20za%20sajt. ppt</p><p> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitive</p><p>Informal Language</p><p> http://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Colloquial-(Informal)-Writing</p><p> http://fillingthegap.slo.nl/materiaal/building_knowledge/Booklet_formal_vs_informal_English.pdf/</p><p>Irregular Verbs</p><p> http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/605/01/</p><p>Missing Words</p><p> http://www.world-english.org/missing_words.htm</p><p> http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-28786.php</p><p>MLA CITATIONS</p><p> http://library.duke.edu/research/citing/within/mla.html</p><p> http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/06/</p><p>Participles</p><p> http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/participle.htm</p><p> http://www.towson.edu/ows/exerciseparticiples2.htm</p><p>3 Past Tense Verbs</p><p> http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/tenses.html</p><p>Point of View Shift</p><p> http://www.ehow.com/video_2261523_choosing-which-person-write-nonfiction.html</p><p> http://instructor.mstc.edu/instructor/mkleckner/appropriate_shifts.html</p><p>Prepositions</p><p> http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/preposit.html</p><p> http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/594/01/</p><p> http://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/prepositions_ending_a_sentence.htm</p><p>Participles, Past and Present</p><p> http://www.trinity.edu/MSTROUD/GRAMMAR/gerund.htm</p><p> http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/participle.htm</p><p>Pronoun Reference Confusion</p><p> http://rlsimmons.blogs.com/enc1101/files/proref.ppt</p><p> http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/aSGuest513-92875-pronoun-ch08ppt-entertainment-ppt- powerpoint/</p><p>Proofreading Exercises</p><p> http://www.glencoe.com/sec/writerschoice/pp/hslessons/grade9/index.shtml</p><p>Run-on Sentences</p><p> http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/runons.htm</p><p> http://www.myenglishteacher.net/runonsentences.html</p><p>Semicolon</p><p>4  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/04/</p><p>Sentence Fragment</p><p> http://www.lincoln.edu/mhs/owl/powerpoints/avoiding%20fragments.ppt</p><p>Spelling</p><p> http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/misspelled.html</p><p> http://www.esldesk.com/vocabulary/misspelled-words</p><p> http://homeworktips.about.com/od/improvingyourgrammar/a/spelling.html</p><p>“S” missing on plural nouns</p><p> http://classroom.jc-schools.net/la/activities/PluralSing-Nouns.ppt</p><p>Subject/Verb Agreement</p><p> http://classroom.jc-schools.net/la/activities/verb-subjagree.ppt</p><p>Subjunctive Mood</p><p> http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000031.htm</p><p> http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/subjunctive_mood.htm</p><p>Tentative Language</p><p> http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091016185512AAoDSd5</p><p> http://www.unisa.edu.au/ltu/students/study/writing/documents/Using_tentative_language.pdf</p><p>Transitions</p><p> http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/trans1.html</p><p> http://www.virtualsalt.com/transits.htm</p><p> http://www.bergen.edu/library/learning/english/exercises/transitions1.htm</p><p>5 Verb Tense</p><p> http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/tenses.html</p><p>Wordiness</p><p> http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=525</p><p> http://projects.uwc.utexas.edu/handouts/?q=node/18</p><p>Wrong Word Choice Exercises</p><p> http://www.learnenglish.de/mistakes/CommonMistakes.htm</p><p>6</p>