Writing Workshop for Multilingual
Speakers and Writers
Matthew David Collins Pizzorno
Adjunct Faculty
Palomar College and ALCI: CSU San Marcos
Upon finishing this workshop, you will be able to:
• Understand how an Academic Sentence is built
from the ground up.
• Focus on building your knowledge of Parts of
Speech.
• Apply your knowledge English grammar to vary
your sentence structures from simple to
complex…and beyond!!!!!
• What is a NOUN…VERB?....
• SUBJECT…..PREDICATE?....
(Understanding these, Leads to…)
• What is an Independent Clause?...
• What is a Dependent Clause?....
• What is a Subordinator??
The most common subordinators are:
• although, even though,
• because, since*, so that,
• when, while, before*, after*,
whenever,
• wherever, anywhere,
• if, unless, whether [or not]
• as, as [adjective] as,
• whereas
• (to show slight contrast)
• (to give reasons)
• (to indicate time relationships)
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(to indicate place)
(to indicate conditions)
(to give comparisons)
(to show major contrast)
(Understanding these ideas, leads to…)
THE SENTENCE
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Now, that we have an
understanding of what
independent and dependent
clauses are....
What is an ACADEMIC SENTENCE?
Or better yet, what is it NOT?
Let’s Put These concepts
into Practice…
1. Subject/Verb:
Fresh Water boils at
100 degrees Celsius.
2. 2 Subjects/Verb:
Fresh water and sea
water do not boil at
the same temperature.
3. Subject/2 Verbs:
Fresh Water freezes
at zero degrees
Celsius and boils at
100 degrees Celsius.
4. What other combinations can you think of??
1.
Coordinator (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so: FAN BOYS)
Too much sun damages the skin, but many people do not use
sunscreen
2.
Semicolon and Conjunctive Adverb (See Photocopy)
Too much sun damages the skin; therefore, we should remember to
use plenty of sunscreen.
3.
Semicolon
Too much sun damages the skin; we should remember to use plenty
of sun screen
• Learn more sentence Types.
1. Sentence Type #3: The Complex
Sentence
2. Sentence Type #4: The
Complex/Compound Sentence
• Learn some fabulously interesting
information about punctuation and
Parallelism.
Contact Me:
Mpizzorn@csusm.com
Ideas for future
workshops?????????????
Sign in Sheet
Questionnaire