Career & Tools
This workshop on May 15 will be an honest conversation about grammar. Beginning with an overview about why grammar does (and doesn't matter), the session will proceed into providing answers to your grammatical questions. Want to know what an em dash is? Splendid! Undecided about the Oxford comma? Let us give you the run down. Come learn how to clean your writing of the most common grammatical errors!
Grammar is complex and often nuanced. Consider the following examples:
My friend Sam is coming to dinner.
And
My friend, Sam, is coming to dinner.
Those two commas actually make the sentence mean something entirely different--though most people don't know that. Making matters worse is that we all know more grammar, intuitively, than we have words to express. This is why âpeople somehow know to pâlace a comma after an introductory infinitive phrase, despite having zero idea about what that means.
This workshop will be an honest conversation about grammar. Beginning with an overview about why grammar does (and doesn't matter), the session will proceed into providing answers to your grammatical questions. Want to know âhow to use a semicolon correctly? Splendid! Undecided about the Oxford comma? Let us give you the run down. Come learn about the most common grammatical errors students produce and clean your writing of them once and for all!
âWhen: Wednesday,â ââMay â15h, 12:45-1:45 P.M.
Where: SRB 2154
RSVP here but drop-ins are welcome!