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252
- Understanding Grammar
Online Version
Welcome to the introductory
page for the online version of SEGL 252. This page is here primarily to
allow you to get a feeling for the course before it begins and to help you
assess whether or not you want to take this class online.
Please consider these five points
before class begins:
1.
Online classes require great
self-discipline. You must keep up with the material and ask questions as
soon as you are feeling lost.
2.
Online classes require a great deal of
reading – like you are doing now. And again, you must ask questions
if you don’t understand something.
3.
Especially in a summer class as 14 weeks of
instruction are packed into a single one-month course, and yes, we will
cover the same amount of material in Summer as we would in Fall or Spring.
4.
Some of the elements of grammar that we will
discuss may seem abstract at first. You are welcome to take this class from
anywhere with a reliable internet connection (& a backup solution), but
you may want to consider taking advantage of the optional Thursday AM face
to face sessions.
5.
To encourage interactivity and make the material
more interesting, I use classroom response technology (clickers) when I teach
252 in the classroom. If you think this would help you, please wait to take
this class in a traditional format.
Course Description
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This
course helps students understand the system of rules underlying the
grammar of English; it makes a distinction between rules of usage and
rules of grammar. To introduce the structure of Standard American
English, the students complete many instructive, practical, and
interesting language activities. The exercises are designed to reinforce
the principles of English grammar and to give the students the chance to
discover for themselves how the English language works. It is hoped that
the students will challenge the generalizations they arrive at, look for
exceptions and counterexamples, and check their conclusions against what
they observe about the use of English rather than accept what grammar
teachers and handbooks claim to be a fact about the English language.
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