Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart

The Janet Erskine Stuart, RSCJ Institute (JESI), 2009

Workshop Title: Teaching Clear Writing

Date: Thursday, August 13, 2009

Instructor: Jose M. Blanco

Telephone: (305) 979-7040

email: jblanco@myquickgrammar.com

Complete JESI Program, 2009

Pictures of Workshop Participants

Reflections and Thanks!

This workshop uses as texts, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, by Joseph Williams (9th edition, Pearson Longman) and the Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers, by Troyka and Hesse (7th edition, Pearson).

Williams, Joseph. Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace. 9th ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2007. Print.

Troyka, Lynn Quitman, and Douglass Hess. Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers. 7th ed. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2005. Print.

It also links to a variety of web resources. Unless noted, through links or otherwise, all material is original.

This sheet contains links to the handouts for The Janet Erskine Stuart, RSCJ Institute (JESI), 2009.

"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness give offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense."

Alexander Pope

Click on a link for the handout.

A Note of Thanks
Objectives
Morning Agenda
Afternoon Agenda
Traditional Sentence Patterns
Other Sentence Patterns
Parallelism
Sentence Combining
Pronoun Reference
Imitating Sentence Patterns
Summarizing in One Sentence
Attributing Ideas to Others
"In My Opinion" -- Strong Authorial Voice
"Who" vs. "Whom"
Prepositions -- "Just between you and I"
Transitions
Comma Splices
Sentence Fragments
Lie vs. Lay
Apostrophe Errors, e.g. its vs. it's
"Beware of "Is..." -- Aggressive Editing
Teaching Clear Thesis Statements
Web Resources
Evaluation

If any workshop participants have additional comments (good or bad) or suggestions for improving this workshop, please send me an email. Thanks.

jblanco@myquickgrammar.com

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