Week 14 · Readings & resources

Week 14 — Readings & Resources

English Composition Free sample edition

Your primary reading is Chapter 14 (in this module). Everything below is the optional, go-deeper layer — pick what helps, skip the rest.

How to use this page

This page has 11 items (5 readings and 6 videos). Allow 55–69 minutes for everything. Each group points back to the matching chapter section and class-session segment, so use the full menu when one kind of error keeps tripping you up, or take the quick path below.

Every video here has captions: turn them on with the CC button in the player. The chapter covers the same ideas in text.

Pick-one quick path (19–22 min total)

① Where does one sentence end and the next begin?

Chapter 14, Section “Find the clauses” · Session 1, Segment 1, “Proofreading moves and the clause test” · Remember: count the independent clauses first, then look at what joins them.

Independent Clauses, Dependent Clauses, & Fragments — Jen Jonson — a four-minute lesson on the two kinds of clause and how a fragment happens. This builds on Week 5's work with composing in the rhetorical modes: a story's time words, such as when and after, are the same words that turn a clause into a dependent one. (video, 4 min) (captions: automatic)
What are Sentence Fragments? — Writing Center Grammar Guide — sorts fragments by what they are missing, a subject, a verb, or an independent clause, and shows a repair for each kind. Its last kind, the dependent-clause fragment, is the one the chapter's library sentence shows. (reading, 4–7 min)
Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices and How to Fix Them — Writing Better — a short walk-through of spotting two complete sentences jammed together and repairing them. Count its repairs against the chapter's five valid fixes. (video, 6 min) (captions: automatic)
Comma Splices and Fused Sentences — Writing Center Grammar Pages — defines both errors with examples and lists four repairs: a period, a semicolon, a coordinating conjunction, and rebuilding the sentence around one independent clause. The chapter adds a fifth, the dash or colon where it fits. (reading, 5–8 min)

② Do my verbs, pronouns, and apostrophes point the right way?

Chapter 14, Section “Find the real subject” · Session 1, Segment 2, “Agreement, pronouns, and apostrophes” · Remember: match each verb to its real subject, each pronoun to one clear word, and test every it's as it is.

Subject Verb Agreement with Intervening Prepositional Phrases — Mabel Speaks — a three-minute look at the phrase that sits between a subject and its verb and pulls the ear toward the wrong verb. Try the chapter's cover-the-phrase test on each example as you watch. (video, 3 min) (captions: automatic)
Subject-Verb Agreement — Writing Center Grammar Guide — singular and plural verb forms, group nouns, and words such as none and every, with a table of pronouns that includes singular they and the verb form it takes. Use it while working through the Week-14 module overview. (reading, 5–8 min)
Its & It's — Learn English with Rebecca · engVid — a full lesson on when to write it's and when to write its, one of the most common slips in English. Check each example with the chapter's it-is test. (video, 8 min) (captions: creator)

③ How do I place commas and catch what I missed?

Chapter 14, Section “Proofread one error type at a time” · Session 2, Segment 3, “Commas, proofreading passes, and the machine” · Remember: give every comma a job, and hunt one kind of error per pass before you trust a draft.

Essential vs Nonessential clause commas — Adam Restad — when a clause in the middle of a sentence takes commas and when it does not. Check each example with the chapter's lift-it-out test from the cover-letter sentence. (video, 8 min) (captions: automatic)
Proofreading — Writing Center Resources — what proofreading checks, how it differs from revising and editing, and strategies that match the chapter's three moves: print it, read it aloud, and look for one type of error at a time. Stop here before reflection on writing as a process; next week takes that up. (reading, 5–8 min)
My #1 Proof Reading Tip - Reading Aloud (and Read Aloud with Word) — Dr Lyndon Walker — why reading aloud catches errors your eye skips, and how to have Microsoft Word read your draft back to you. (video, 3 min) (captions: automatic)

Optional one-stop reference (free online reference)

Run-ons, Comma Splices, and Fused Sentences — Online Writing Lab (OWL) — a reference page on the sentence-boundary errors and their punctuation repairs; use it to check a joint you are unsure of this week, and skip anything beyond clauses and their punctuation. (reading, 4–6 min)

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