| A Writer's Workshop: Crafting Paragraphs, Building Essays Bob Brannan,
Johnson County Community College
Revising Paragraphs
Glossaryapostrophe | a punctuation mark generally used in order 1) to show the omission of one or more letters in a contraction, and 2) to show ownership or possession
| | | | comma splices | incorrect use of a comma to connect ("splice" together) two complete thoughts. Ex.: I go to school, my brother stays home.
| | | | editing | revising a piece of writing with particular attention to grammar, style, punctuation, and other mechanical issues
| | | | expository patterns of development | patterns of paragraph development such as illustration, classification, cause and effect, process analysis and comparison/contrast
| | | | proofreading | the last step of paper preparation: carefully re-reading the near-finished draft, checking for errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, and format.
| | | | sensory details | descriptive evidence that appeals to a reader's sense of sight, hearing, taste, smell, or touch
| | | | sentence fragment | a word group that lacks a subject or a verb and/or one that does not express a complete thought. Ex.: Whenever I go to school. ("Whenever," introduces a dependent clause, so it cannot stand alone.)
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