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

Spelling Improvement

Writing On and Offline

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 send your work to him or her by clicking the "Submit Answers" button. If you are working offline, you will have to copy your answers (CTRL-C on most systems) and paste them (CTRL-V) into a text document to retain a record of your work.





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Activity 1:

Directions: Do you have any words or word types that you consistently misspell? Check over your most recent corrected papers if need be. List the misspellings and consult a dictionary to get the correct spelling.
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Activity 2:

Directions: Does bad spelling really matter? Should an instructor lower your grade because of it? What's the difference as long as he or she knows what you mean? Do you use a spell-checker when you use a word processor? What are the limitations of spell-checking programs?