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 Wednesday, January 6 through Friday, January 15 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, January 19 through Friday, January 22 January 18 - Monday - Closed for MLK Day Deadline for Commas is Friday, January 22 |
Commas
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RGG2 pages 49-60 |
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Week 4 Monday, January 25 through Friday, January 29 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. January 25 & 26 - Monday & Tuesday Semicolons & Colons January 27 & 28 - Wednesday & Thursday Sentence Errors January 29 - 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, January 29
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RGG2 pages 167-176 RGG2 pages 177-186 |
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Week 5 Monday, February 1 through Friday, February 5 Deadline for Subject-Verb Agreement is Friday, February 5 |
Subject-Verb Agreement | RGG2 pages 193-210 |
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Week 6 Monday, February 8 through Friday, February 12 Deadline for Pronoun Reference and Antecedent Agreement Friday, February 12 |
Pronoun Reference and Antecedent Agreement | RGG2 pages 147-158 |
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Week 7 Monday, February 15 through Friday, February 19 Deadline for Pronoun Case is Friday, February 19 |
Pronoun Case | RGG2 pages 135-146 |
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Week 8 Monday, February 22 through Friday, February 26 Deadline for Diction is Friday, February 26 |
Diction | RGG2 pages 69-84 |
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Week 9 Monday, March 1 through Friday, March 5 Deadline for Possessives/Apostrophes is Friday, March 5 NOTE: THE WRITING LAB WILL BE CLOSED FOR SPRING BREAK FROM MONDAY, MARCH 8 - FRIDAY, MARCH 12.
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Possessives/Apostrophes | RGG2 pages 127-134 |
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Week 10 Monday, March 15 through Friday, March 19 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. March 15 & 16 - Monday & Tuesday Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers March 17 & 18 - Wednesday & Thursday Verb Forms and Tenses March 19 - 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, March 19
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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, March 22 through Friday, March 26 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. March 22 & 23 - Monday & Tuesday Faulty Comparisons March 24 & 25 - Wednesday & Thursday Parallelism March 26 - 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, March 26
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Faulty Comparisons
Parallelism |
RGG2 pages 89-96
RGG2 pages 115-122 |
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Week 12 Monday, March 29 through Friday, April 2 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. March 29 & 30 - Monday & Tuesday Adjectives and Adverbs March 31 & April 1 - Wednesday & Thursday Capitalization, Hyphenation, and MLA Quotation Technique April 2 - Friday Adjectives and Adverbs 10:00 a.m, 12:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m., and 4:00 p.m. Capitalization, Hyphenation, and MLA Quotation Technique 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m. Capitalization, Hyphenation, and QT Deadline for both Adejctives and Adverbs and Capitalization, Hyphenation, Italicization and Quotation Technique is Friday, April 2
From Monday, April 5 through Friday, April 23, 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 |