Skagit Valley College

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 Course Title:   Improving Grammar I

 Title Abbreviation:   IMPROVING GRAMMAR I

 Department:    ENGL

 Course #:    97

 Credits:    5

 Variable:     No

 IUs:    5

 CIP:    330103

 EPC:    n/a

 REV:    2019


 Course Description  

Designed to teach students to write, analyze, and revise their own sentences and to begin to develop coherent paragraphs.

 Prerequisite  

Prerequisite: Appropriate test score.

Additional Course Details

Contact Hours (based on 11 week quarter)

Lecture: 55

Lab: 0

Other: 0

Systems: 0

Clinical: 0


Intent: Distribution Requirement(s) Status:  

Academic Elective  

Equivalencies At Other Institutions

Other Institution Equivalencies Table
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Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

  1. Control the syntax of their own sentences:
    • Identify and correct fragments, run-ons, and comma splices.
    • Apply knowledge of sentence analysis to revise/correct ineffective sentences they hae written.
    • Identify and correct S-V agreement, pronoun reference agreement, and very tense errors.
    • Understand the relationship of punctuation to syntax and apply punctuation rules to their own sentences.
    • Develop an analytical and systematic approach discovering sentence errors.
  2. Write a paragraph that has unity of idea and form.
  3. Write a paragraph that has coherence.
  4. Demonstrate ability to understand and apply diverse perspectives.

General Education Learning Values & Outcomes

Revised August 2008 and affects outlines for 2008 year 1 and later.

Course Contents

  1. Paper format
  2. Elements of a sentence: subjects, verbs, prepositional phrases
  3. Four types of sentences
  4. Sentence combining: coordinate conjunctions, transitional words, dependent words
  5. Punctuation: endmarks, apostrophes, quotation marks, commas
  6. Writing errors created by sentence fragements, run-ons, subject-verb agreement, pronoun-antecedent agreement, pronoun reference, point of view, dangling modifiers, faulty parallelism.
  7. Elements of a paragraph: topic sentence, development, transitions, conclusion
  8. Proofreading and rewriting