An illustration of a professor looking up from his phone to see a student's text: "Let's eat grandpa!" This illustration highlights a punctuation error and its humorous potential for misunderstanding.

Common Sentence Errors and How to Avoid Them

Explore the nuances of sentence errors in writing, distinguishing between their detrimental impacts in professional contexts and their educational value in learning. This article summarizes common sentence errors, presents tips for identifying errors in your own work, and revisits Mina Shaughnessy's influential views on error handling in basic writing, highlighting the importance of errors in the developmental process of writing skills

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Diction

Diction refers to a writer or speaker's word choice. Learn 3 methods to evaluate the appropriateness of your diction or the diction of others: Level of Formality, Level of Abstraction, and Connotation and Denotation.