English Grammar and Style
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About this Course
With the rise of social media and the Internet, many people are writing more today for different mediums than ever before. We'll present materials that cover grammatical principles, word usage, writing style, sentence and paragraph structure, and punctuation. We'll introduce you to some marvelous resources that we have annotated for your guidance. We'll show you video clips of interviews conducted with distinguished grammarians, challenge you with quizzes and writing activities that will give you strategies to help you to build skills that will enhance the quality of your writing, and invite you to participate in discussions and assess the work of your peers.
Instructors
Roslyn Petelin
Honorary Associate Professor Roslyn Petelin designed and established the post-graduate Writing, Editing & Publishing Program in the School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland in 2000. Prior to this, she taught Literature and Film at the Brisbane Kindergarten Teachers’ College and Writing and Speech Communication in the Faculty of Business at Queensland University of Technology and in the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University (USA). She is a past President and Honorary Life Member of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association and has consulted extensively on writing, editing, and information design to public and private sector organisations in Australia, the UK, the USA, and S. E. Asia. In 2014, she developed and launched WRITE101x. Since then, close to 800,000 students have enrolled in the course. In 2016, she published her third book How Writing Works: A Field Guide to Effective Writing , which explores the concepts covered in WRITE101x, as well as writing for social media, online publication, university, and the workplace. The second edition of How Writing Works was published by Routledge (UK) in 2022.
