1. WRITING THE ACADEMIC PAPER Attending to Grammar 2007. 11. 19 Cho, Ho-Gi GNU OS Lab.

2. Attending to Grammar 2 Contents  Attending to Grammar  A Brief introduction  Most commonly occurring errors  Becoming your own grammar tutor  Useful links

3. GNU OS Lab. Attending to Grammar 3 A Brief introduction “Who” or ”Whom? Comma or no comma? Passive, or active? Non-native speaker Handbook Tutors … Community Native speaker

4. GNU OS Lab. Attending to Grammar 4 Most commonly occurring errors(1/3)  Twenty different mistakes *  Missing comma after introductory phrases  “However,~”, “In 1999,~”, …  Vague pronoun reference  “I show him.” : Who is him?  Missing comma in compound sentence  “~, and ~”  Wrong word  This speaks for itself  No comma in nonrestrictive relative clauses  “My brother, in the red shirt, likes ice cream.” *)by Andrea Lunsford and Robert Connors

5. GNU OS Lab. Attending to Grammar 5 Most commonly occurring errors(2/3)  Wrong/missing inflected ends  “~ed, ~s..”  Wrong/missing preposition  Comma splice  “The young Picasso felt stifled in art school in Spain, and wanted to leave.”  Possessive apostrophe error  “her’s, their’s, etc.”  Tense shift  Unnecessary shift in person  Sentence fragment  “ S+V. ”  Wrong tense or verb form

6. GNU OS Lab. Attending to Grammar 6 Most commonly occurring errors(3/3)  Subject-verb agreement  “S~, it ~, they ~.”  Missing comma in a series  “ ~,~,~, and ~.”  Pronoun agreement error  “Everyone is entitled to their opinion.”  Unnecessary commas with restrictive clauses  Run-on, fused sentence  Dangling, misplaced modifier  Its/it’s error

7. GNU OS Lab. Attending to Grammar 7 Becoming your own grammar tutor  determine whether the error is a matter of carelessness, or a pattern of error  prioritize among your errors  practice writing sentences  understand grammar

8. GNU OS Lab. Attending to Grammar 8 Useful links  Grammar & Style Guides  Grammar and Style Notes by Jack Lynch  Grammar Points  Online Writing Lab Handouts, Purdue University  Punctuation Made Simple  Dictionaries & Thesauri  Oxford English Dictionary  thesaurus.com