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 * WRITING GUIDE**

This //Guide to Grammar and Writing// was compiled by the late Dr. Charles Darling over the many years of his distinguished academic career.

Guide to Grammar and Writing http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

The Guide is sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation in Hartford, Connecticut.

I am personally grateful to all that I have learned from this guide and hope that my students will profit richly from its contents.

THE WRITING PROCESS

Overcoming writer's block http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/brainstorm_block.htm

Getting started: freewriting http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/brainstorm_freewrite.htm

Getting started: clustering (same as mind-mapping) http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/brainstorm_clustering.htm

Getting started: outlining http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/brainstorm_outline.htm

The editing and rewriting process http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/editing.htm

Paragraph development and topic sentences http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/paragraphs.htm

Coherence: Transitions between ideas http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/transitions.htm

Writing Concise Sentences http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/concise.htm

Interactive Quiz: Writing Concise Sentences http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/wordy_quiz.htm

Interactive Quiz: Eliminating Wordiness http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/nova/nova8.htm

Interactive Quiz: Rewriting Bloated Sentences http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/nova/nova11.htm

Plague Words and Phrases http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/plague.htm

Sentence Combining

1. Sentence-combining skills http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/combining_skills.htm

Interactive Quiz on Combining Sentences http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/combining_quiz2.htm

Another Interactive Quiz on Combining Sentences http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/combining_quiz1.htm

2. Avoiding Primer Language http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/primer.htm

Interactive Quiz: Avoiding Primer Style http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/primer_quiz.htm

3. Sentence Variety and Modifier Placement [modifier placement at bottom of screen] http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/sentences.htm

Interactive Quiz: Varying Sentence Beginnings http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/nova/nova9.htm

Interactive Quiz: Sentence Variety and Modifier Placement http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/nova/nova10.htm

Parallel Form http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/parallelism.htm

Biblical examples of parallelism http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/bible.htm

Interactive Quiz: Parallel Structure http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/parallelism_quiz.htm

Another Interactive Quiz on Parallel Structure http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/parallelism2_quiz.htm

A Further Interactive Quiz on Parallel Structure http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/niu/niu10.htm

Principles of Organization http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/organization.htm

Introductory Paragraphs http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/intros.htm

Concluding Paragraphs http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/endings.htm

Rules for Comma Usage http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/commas.htm

Using Numbers http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/numbers.htm

Quotation Marks http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/quotation.htm

Miscellaneous issues

Uses of shall and will and should http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/auxiliary.htm#shall

Conjunctions http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/conjunctions.htm

Building a better vocabulary http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/vocabulary.htm

Who versus whom http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/pronouns.htm#who