COMM 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sentence Clause Structure
4 Dec 2018
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Informal research methods- company les, talk with your boss, interview the target audience, conduct an informal survey. Formal research methods- electronic sources (internet, databases), search manually, investigate primary sources ( interviews , surveys) , experiment scienti cally (tests with experimental and control groups) Four sentence types - simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence, compound-complex sentence. Sentence fragments- broken off parts of complex sentences. Run-on sentences- when 2 independent clauses not joined with proper punctuation. Comma-splice sentences- when 2 independant clauses are joined by a comma. Use passive-voice verbs to emphasize an action rather than a person, de-emphasize negative news. Parallelism - involves balanced technique, matches nouns with nouns, verbs with verbs and clauses with clauses. Avoid dangling modi ers - ensure the word or phrase it describes is not missing, keep phrases close to the words they describe. Discuss only one topic in a paragraph (group similar ideas together) Topic sentence - expresses primary idea of the paragraph.
