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Welcome To My Webpage!

Class Links

By clicking on the links to the right, you will be taken to individual pages for each of my classes for Fall Semester 2007. On each page, you'll find a calendar of assignments and readings that will be updated regularly. Any news or information you need for my class will also be available, along with any web links I think you might find interesting and/or helpful for the class.

Junior Honors Language Arts

Senior Honors Language Arts

AP Literature and Composition

Junior Vocabulary Practice

Sentence Patterns

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THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS
Commit one of these deadly sins and your paper will be handed back to you, ungraded, for you to fix and resubmit at 20% off !!!!

1. Use the word “it” more than twice
2. Underlining!
3. Italics or quotation marks used incorrectly
4. Periods/commas go inside “ ” (unless there is a citation)
5. Incorrect citations
6. Improper quote integration
7. Contractions

Top 20 Rules List

Fragment

Run-On Sentence

Agreement Problem (tense, gender, number)

Comma Problem

Semicolon Problem

Quotation Mark/Italics Problem

Use of Verboten List Item

Wordiness/Clarity

Pronoun Reference Problem

Spelling Error

Capitalization Error

Your/Their/Too/ Its Error

Word That Doesn’t Exist

Citation Problem/Works Cited Page

Layout Problem

Not Enough Evidence

Too Many Simple Sentences

Quote Integration

Contraction

Slang