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1			Activity 1 Directions: Visit the website of the Globe and Mail and read an article by one of the regular columnists. How does the writer grab your attention at the beginning of the column? Does he or she use one of the methods of introduction described in your book or another method? How effective is the column’s opening?
2			Activity 2 Directions: For additional help understanding how paragraphs work, visit the University of Victoria’s Writing Guide.
3			INTRO: These writing prompts are followed by text boxes for your input. If you are working online and your instructor has given you the go-ahead, you can e-mail your work to him or her and also to yourself by copying your answers (CTRL-C on most systems) and pasting them (CTRL-V) into an e-mail or document.
4			Activity 1 Directions: For additional information about the parts of speech, check out the article “Traditional Grammar Terminology,” which is part of the University of Toronto’s online writing resources. Are any of the terms new to you or difficult to understand? Make a list of those terms and write out a definition for each of them in your own words.
5			Activity 2 Directions: As you have probably noticed, defining one part of speech often involves referring to another part of speech. Take advantage of the hyperlinks in the University of Ottawa’s HyperGrammar course to explore the way that various parts of speech relate to one another.