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Sentence Skills, Form A book cover
Sentence Skills, Form A, 7/e
John Langan, Atlantic Cape Community College
Dictionary Use

Writing On and Offline

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Activity 1:

Look up the word "dictionary" in an online dictionary. Read the definitions very carefully. Jot down a few things that you didn't know before this exercise. Did you follow any of the subsidiary links on the page? If you did, what did you learn?
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Activity 2:

Directions: Find the word "syllabication" in an online dictionary. How many syllables does it have? Where would you be able (correctly) to put hyphens if you hyphenated the word in an essay? How do you pronounce it? What language does it stem from? Did you know all of these things before? Did you find reliable sources for this information? How do you know? Would you use this information with the confidence you would from your own paperback dictionary?








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