Ms. Melancon's Language Arts Pages (best viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer)
For any questions, concerns, or help, please email me at msmelancon@yahoo.com, or just click on the address to send one now!
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Welcome To My Webpage! |
Class Links |
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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. |
Scroll Down for Writing Rules!! |
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 |