Download Analyzing and Revising Grammar Errors: A Case Study - Prof. S. R. Rightmire and more Papers Linguistics in PDF only on Docsity! Learning Log 4: An Analysis of Grammar Revising Strategies Please type your answers and hand them in at class time Monday, April 28. Note: This learning log is an extended grammar log, similar to last week’s but with more examples. 1. Identify three top-priority error types in your own writing. Refer to last week’s log and the essay drafts you have received from me by e-mail, especially the most recent Draft 5. 2. The three error types should be the most frequent or most serious according to your personal error analysis. They must be grammar errors, which means please exclude vagueness, word choice, organization, format, and spelling. 3. For each of your chosen error types, show two examples of a successfully revised sentence from any draft of your Environmental Issues paper. Follow the same format as for part 2 of last week’s grammar log. Here is the format again, below: Example, Before Editing: Everyone in poor nations expect to become as wealthy as those of us who lives in the U.S. Example, After Editing: Everyone in poor nations expects to become as wealthy as those of us who live in the U.S. 4. For each example, explain the change, citing the appropriate rule of grammar. Be complete and use grammatical or linguistic terminology. Your log should total about two pages, double-spaced. Examples of successful and less-successful grammar analysis, along with my grading criteria: Example 1 I changed it from expect to expects because expects is plural. Grade: F Comment: The explanation is not accurate and reflects a lack of understanding of the rule. Example 2 I changed it from expect to expects because it sounds better that way. Grade: F Comment: The explanation is incomplete because it does not appeal to a grammar rule or editing strategy. Example 3 I changed it from expect to expects because –s means singular. Grade: D Comment: The explanation is vague and incomplete. Example 4 I changed it from expect to expects because –s on a verb means the verb agrees with a singular subject. Grade: C Comment: The explanation is accurate and reflects a basic understanding of the rule, but it lacks detail. Example 5 I changed expect to expects because –s on a verb means the verb agrees with a singular subject. The subject is everyone, which is singular. Grade: B Comment: The explanation is accurate and reflects an understanding of the rule, with more detail. Example 6 I changed the verb from expect to expects because, according to rules of subject-verb agreement, –s on a verb means the verb agrees with a singular or noncountable subject, whereas the absence of –s on the verb would correspond to a plural subject (source: http://www.esl.ucsb.edu/people/rightmire/ tools/Agreement.htm). The subject is everyone, which is countable and singular. Grade: A Comment: The explanation is accurate, detailed, sourced and correctly formatted.
