COM 2135 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Gerund, Semicolon, Preposition And Postposition
26 Aug 2016
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Communication is the foundation of everything: considered some of the most important skills in the workforce. Understand your role: you"re writing for huge audiences, personal vs. Massive: personal: can hear, see audience/can receive feedback, massive: cannot receive feedback/delivered over medium (ex. radio) It"s a collaborative effort between you and your editor. Recognize your power and responsibility: writers influence what people think about and how they think about it, writers have a moral and ethical obligation to be as accurate and truthful as possible. Comma splice: two independent phrases joined by a comma: should be replaced with a conjunction, semicolon, or split. Parallelism: elements are parallel when all parts of speech are the same: a smartphone has other capabilities such as communicating with computers, recording video and (performing) email functions. Subject-verb agreements: must agree in person, number, and tense: most indefinite pronouns and all collective nouns are treated as singular.
