Course description

This course will extend the grounding in the fundamentals of grammar, syntax, and style that are dealt with in WRIT6030 Professional Communication and WRIT7025 Academic and Corporate Editing. It will build on students' intuitive understanding of how words work, and equip them with a command of sentence structure and style by providing them with strategies to edit at an advanced level. The course will cover word usage; phrases and clauses; sentence structure and types of sentences; case of nouns and pronouns; tense, mood, form, and voice of verbs; modal verbs; agreement of subject and verb; pronoun reference; adjectives and adverbs; modifiers, conjunctions, parallelism; prepositions; punctuation; coherence and cohesion; figures of speech; emphasis, euphony, rhythm, and elegance; ethos and persona.

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