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Learn Online: Grammar Review Made Easy

Syllabus: Grammar Review Made Easy

Office Hours: Available Daily
Course Meeting Times: Online class open 24 hours everyday
 

Course Description

This self-paced online course will provide a quick and efficient review of the grammar and writing skills necessary when taking any high school and college test or with your everyday work related writing and correspondence.  Divided up into five easy to understand lessons, this grammar course concentrates on usage, the mechanics of a sentence, spelling,  and a general review of grammatical problem areas.  Each lesson focuses on frequent errors, gives examples, suggests strategies, and offers further study guides.  The course is ideal for all types of students who want to get an edge on taking a high school, college, or a job related English exam and anyone wishing to update their grammar skills.

Course Requirements

There are no requirements for completing this course. The course content will present a great deal of information and helpful resources-- how you use this material is entirely up to you.

Course Goals

By the end of this course, you will know how to:

Identify and Understand the various rules in grammar and usage (such as subject-verb agreement)
Identify and Correct the frequent errors associated with grammar.
Identify and Understand the various rules in the mechanics of a sentence (such as punctuation and capitalization guidelines)
Identify and Correct the frequent errors associated with the mechanics of a sentence
Identify and Correct frequent spelling errors
Identify and Understand the various rules in diction.

Course Materials

No material is required and study guides, practice tests, and other resources are available online.

Grading Policy

Each lesson will have multiple practice quizzes. Each quiz will provide you with immediate feedback. You will be able to retake each quiz repeatedly until you have grasped the test content.

Course Outline

Review of Grammar and Usage
Review of Mechanics in Writing
Review of Spelling (and frequent Spelling Errors)
Review of Diction
Summary (Putting it all together in practice exams)

Recommended Books

Although there are no Required books for this course, we do have some Recommended Books:
 
1.  Painless Grammar (Painless Series) (Paperback) Booklink to: Painless Grammar
 
2.  English Grammar Workbook For Dummies  Booklink: English Grammar Workbook For Dummies

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