Students must complete all English language skills lessons by the deadlines shown below or receive an INCOMPLETE for each lesson missed. There are no make-up dates for tutoring sessions. Since it is your instructor who is requiring you to attend these sessions, you should see him or her about any questions you have regarding missed tutoring sessions.
To prepare for Lab tests, students should read information in the Lab Work handbook--Real Good Grammar, Too. Click the hyperlinks below for review materials.
When making appointments for tutoring sessions, students are allowed to make appointments for the current week's skill and for the skills that are scheduled for the following two weeks. Therefore, students may make only three appointments according to the Diagnostic Skills Test sequence below.
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Weeks 1 & 2 Monday, August 24 through Friday, September 4 The Writing Lab is not open for paper reading or tutoring during the first two weeks of the semester. However, if you would like to make an appointment or appointments for a paper reading or tutoring session for September 8th or later, you may call 474-2129 or 474-2029. If there is no answer, you may leave your name and contact number, and a Writing Lab assistant will call you back. |
Writing Lab's Diagnostic Test | |
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Week 3 Tuesday, September 8th through Friday, September 11th September 7- Monday- Closed for Labor Day Deadline for Commas is Friday, September 11th |
Commas
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RGG2 pages 49-60 |
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Week 4 Monday, September 14th through Friday, September 18th NOTE: This week has two skills. The schedule below lists the dates above the skill that will be covered on those days. On Friday, both skills will be covered, and the hours will alternate. September 14th-15th- Monday & Tuesday Semicolons & Colons September 16th-17th- Wednesday & Thursday Sentence Errors September 18th- Friday Sentence Errors 10:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m., and 4:00 p.m. Semicolons & Colons 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., and 3:00 p.m. Deadline for both Semicolons and Colons and Sentence Errors is Friday, September 18th
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RGG2 pages 167-176 RGG2 pages 177-186 |
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Week 5 Monday, September 21st through Friday, September 25th Deadline for Subject-Verb Agreement is Friday, September 25th |
Subject-Verb Agreement | RGG2 pages 193-210 |
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Week 6 Monday, September 28th through Friday, October 2nd Deadline for Pronoun Reference and Antecedent Agreement Friday, October 2nd |
Pronoun Reference and Antecedent Agreement | RGG2 pages 147-158 |
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Week 7 Monday, October 5th through Friday, October 9th Deadline for Pronoun Case is Friday, October 9th |
Pronoun Case | RGG2 pages 135-146 |
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Week 8 Monday, October 12th through Friday, October 16th Deadline for Diction is Friday, October 16th |
Diction | RGG2 pages 69-84 |
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Week 9 Monday, October 19th through Friday, October 23rd Deadline for Possessives/Apostrophes is Friday, October 23rd |
Possessives/Apostrophes | RGG2 pages 127-134 |
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Week 10 Monday, October 26th through Friday, October 30th NOTE: This week has two skills. The schedule below lists the dates above the skill that will be covered on those days. On Friday, both skills will be covered, and the hours will alternate. October 26th-27th- Monday & Tuesday Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers October 28th-29th- Wednesday & Thursday Verb Forms and Tenses October 30th- Friday Verb Forms and Tenses 10:00 a.m, 12:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m., and 4:00 p.m. Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m. Deadline for both Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers and Verb Forms and Tenses is Friday, October 30th
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Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers
Verb Forms and Tenses |
RGG2 pages 61-68
RGG2 pages 215-226 |
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Week 11 Monday, November 2nd through Friday, November 6th NOTE: This week has two skills. The schedule below lists the dates above the skill that will be covered on those days. On Friday, both skills will be covered, and the hours will alternate. November 2nd-3rd- Monday & Tuesday Faulty Comparisons November 4th-5th- Wednesday & Thursday Parallelism November 6th- Friday Faulty Comparisons 10:00 a.m, 12:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m., and 4:00 p.m. Parallelism 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m. Deadline for both Faulty Comparisons and Parallelism is Friday, November 6th
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Faulty Comparisons
Parallelism |
RGG2 pages 89-96
RGG2 pages 115-122 |
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Week 12 Monday, November 9th through Tuesday, November 10th Closed Wednesday November 11th- Veterans' Day Thursday, November 12th through Friday, November 13th NOTE: This week a holiday falls on Wednesday. Therefore, unlike other weeks with two skills, students will not have the option of an alternating schedule on Friday. This week has two skills. The schedule below lists the dates above the skill that will be covered on those days. November 9th-10th- Monday & Tuesday Adjectives and Adverbs Deadline for Adjectives and Adverbs is Tuesday, November 10th Closed Wednesday November 11th-Veterans' Day November 12th- 13th- Thursday and Friday Capitalization, Hyphenation, and QT Deadline for Capitalization, Hyphenation, and QT is Friday, November 13th
Monday, November 16th through Friday, December 4th the Lab is open for continuous paper reading. There are not any tutoring sessions during the last three weeks of the semester. |
Adjective and Adverb Use
Capitalization, Hyphenation, Italicization, and Quotation Technique |
RGG2 pages 25-32 RGG2 pages 41-48, 97-102, 211-214, 159-166 |