Email Cont’d

Week 7, Part 2

Reminder

1. Slideshare.net/janegriffith

Today

1. Email: Continued2. Proofreading Quiz3. Job Search Stuff Back

Grammar-rama

Bullets (again) Bullets need to be parallel If the lead-in sentence is complete, use a

colon If the lead-in sentence is incomplete, use

nothing

Grammar-rama

Practice bullets: page 96

Email

Most common way to communicate Email replaces memos (in some ways) Quick and easy (blessing and a curse!) Page 81

Email Rules

1. Use a salutation (like the letters)2. Choose a clear subject line3. Avoid follow-up with complete

information4. Delete emoticons, lower-case letters for

personal pronouns, and “net-speak.”5. End with your complete name and a

footer.

Email Assignment

Choose a scenario from page 86 (different than one you have done before)

Create an email that is 500 words long Follow the email rules discussed today Include one bulleted list—make sure it is

parallel Pay careful attention to the 7Cs

Proofreading

Quiz: February 17 Will be a sample memo with 10 errors on

it in: Comma splices Fragments Memo format Wrong word, right sound (pages 160-161)

3. Fragments

Missing a subject, a verb, or includes a subordinating word.

Fragments/Incomplete Sentences

Easy to recognize apart from other sentences.

Difficult to recognize next to related sentences.

Fragments/Incomplete Sentences

Example: On the old wooden stool in the corner of my grandma’s kitchen.

Example: And immediately popped their flares and life vests.

On that morning I sat in my usual spot. On the wooden stool in the corner of my grandma’s kitchen.

The pilots ejected from the burning plane, landing in the water. And immediately popped their flares and life vests.

Test Your Sentence!

YES!

YES!

No!

Is there a verb?

Is there a verb?

Is there a subject?Is there a subject?

Is there just a subordinate clause or

phrase?

Is there just a subordinate clause or

phrase?

Complete Sentence!

Complete Sentence!

NoFragme

ntFragme

nt

NoFragme

ntFragme

nt

YES.

Fragment

Fragment

How to Fix a Fragment

1. Attach the fragment to a nearby sentence.

2. Turn the fragment into a sentence.

Try It!

At the same time, owners of sports franchises growing fantastically rich.

Everyone valued the contract. A fair deal for everyone.

I always was nervous in English. Because I am a poor speller.

Her piano recital went poorly although she practiced constantly.