WRT533

Improving Sentence Style and Readability
given 2/18 | due 3/3

Overview: This is a series of exercises, based on class handouts and the Little, Brown Handbook. Exercises are to be undertaken individually in preparation for class. Completed exercises are to be collected at the end of the session, approximately March 3.

Assignment: Complete the following exercises, writing your answers in pencil or pen on a copy of the handout or on a separate sheet of paper clearly labeled to identify the exercise. Include your name on all papers submitted.

• DeGeorge Unit 8 ("Readability Guidelines"), ALL exercises, page 115-120, including final paragraph revisions.
• DeGeorge Unit 9 ("Nominalizations"), exercises 1-10 on pages 132-133.
• Little, Brown Handbook:
  • Chapter 28 ("The Comma"), exercise 13, p. 489. (Copy, MSWord)
  • Chapter 29 ("The Semicolon"), exercise 7, p. 499. (Copy, MSWord)
  • Chapter 30 ("The Apostrophe"), exercise 6, p. 507. (Copy, MSWord)
  • Chapter 31 ("Quotation Marks"), exercise 4, p. 518. (Copy, MSWord)
  • Chapter 32 ("Other Punctuation Marks"), exercise on chapters 27-32, p. 532. (Copy, MSWord)
• Editing assignment from CBE (Woodford, 1988) (handout)