Wednesday, August 5, 2009

A final poem

Here's Taylor Mali reading his poem "The The Impotence of Proofreading."



You can read the text of the poem here. Try copying the text into Word and see if it catches any of the errors.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

EWRT1A-62: flow handout and modifiers

Here's the flow handout I passed around Thursday:
If you want more information about modifiers (we dealt with these in the last two sets of sentences), here's a general definition and a description of the different functions of modifiers, here's a page with more information (if you navigate with the links on the left), here's a good page all about dangling modifiers and how to fix them, and here's a page about misplaced, dangling, and squinting modifiers.