Sentence Fragments:

Sentence Fragments are incomplete sentences. Fragments are sentences disconnected by the

main clause. For example: The boy likes to drink orange juice. Because it is his favorite drink.

The last sentence is a disconnection from the first so that makes a fragment. To fix this fragment

we could combine the sentences into one.For example:The boy like to drink orange juice

because it is his favorite drink. Fragments in some cases are not bad, in fact it could be a strong

literary tool. Fragments could be used in an informal essay, or any written piece that is purposely

casual. They would be used to promote understanding and cater to a certain audience that will

likely appreciate and respond favorably to informality.

Reading Comprehension:

Reading comprehension is the ability to read text, process it, and understand its meaning.

To properly comprehend you must:

Be able to decode the words on the page.

Hold information in working memory long enough for the information to be more

processed.

Have adequate vocabulary, grammar and syntactical skills to organize and interpret the

message.

Access higher order thinking skills to process the message and go beyond the text and

infer possible meaning.

Reading comprehension may be hard for some so here are some tips one can use to better

comprehend what they read.

 Annotate- underline, circle or make general notes in the margin. This allows one to go

back and be refreshed on what they read

Skim first- take a look at the title, subtitles, chapter summary and pictures (if any) before

reading. This gives one an idea of what the reading is about without actually reading.

Read early in the day- One will retain more information of they read in the day rather

than reading at night when one may get sleepy.

Conclusion:

The conclusion paragraph is the last paragraph of an academic essay. Conclusions are

created with three main points in mind:

Restate the main idea of your essay, or your thesis statement,

Summarize the three subpoints of your essay,

Leave the reader with an interesting final impression.

Even though the goal of the conclusion is to restate a lot of the information from the

introduction, it should sound different because the conclusions purpose is slightly different from

the introduction. No new information is presented in this paragraph. Instead, the writer sums up

what has been written so far and leaves the reader with a last thought(Suchma). An example of a

bad conclusion is : And this is why dogs rule, and cats drool. This is a bad conclusion because

it does not use any of the main points a writer should keep in mind while writing a conclusion.

An example of a good conclusions is Cats are great to have around. They are nice, help you out

sometimes, and are funny. Now you know what i know about cats. This is good because it states

the main idea, gives somewhat of a sub point but not a good subpoint.
An example of a proper conclusion is Pets are athletic, can be used as rescue animals, and

provide love to their owners. A pet can make a difference in someone's life, so encourage

someone to adopt a pet today. This is a proper conclusion because it uses three strong sub points

as well as restates the main point in an interesting way.

Passive Voice:

In passive voice, the target of the action gets promoted to the subject position.

For example:The food was cooked by Mrs. Lola. This sentence is passive. To make it active

rewrite it as:Mrs. Lola cooked the food. Passive sentences are not always incorrect, but they

are not the best way to phrase ones thoughts. It is easy to leave out the person or thing doing the

action. For example:Daniel is needed. Daniel is needed by whom?.. But be careful because

saying Daniel is needed by ____ is still passive. To switch this into active rewrite the sentence

as:____ needs Daniel. People tend to use passive voice to show interest in the person/ object

that experiences an action rather than the person/object that performs the action. Sometimes

people use passive voice because they do not know or want to express who performed the action.

Just like the example above. Writing in present tense tends to correct this problem. Passive voice

is not bad, but using active voice is better.

Colloquialism:

Colloquial writing is writing in the ordinary or familiar conversation rather than writing

formally.

For Example:

The amount of gentrification throughout the US blows me

This sentence has some informal characteristics such as slang.

A formal sentence would look like this:

The amount of gentrification in the US shocks me

Colloquial writing is not bad writing and formal writing is not the best writing.

A lot of people use colloquial writing because of their culture or where they were raised has

shaped their speech. To correct this problem try using more precise vocabulary and less slang in

academic writing pieces. Colloquial writing could be used more or less depending on the type of

writing. Academic pieces should only have a little bit of colloquial writing. Whereas creative

writing pieces can include as much colloquial writing the writer wants.

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