Online Course Spotlight: Grammar, Punctuation, and Meaning

This week, Campus Direct is shining the spotlight on an online English grammar course.

If you are participating in a distance learning course, commas, periods, and verb tenses have most likely never been more important.

In a traditional classroom where interaction is mostly through face-to-face speech, punctuation doesn’t necessarily play a large role. But in online classes, speech takes a backseat and writing grabs the wheel as emails, chat rooms, and discussion boards become the primary methods of communication. Grammar, punctuation, and word selection, therefore, are vital to clear communication between you, the instructor, and other students.

Here is an online course that may help you refresh or sharpen your basic language skills.

Title: Grammar, Punctuation, and Meaning

Source: mediabistro.com

Level: Introductory

Description: Should a preposition be something you never end a sentence with? Which rules that were drilled into your head by your sixth-grade English teacher are essential to good grammar, and which can you discard? This course will help you navigate safely through the overgrown thicket that is grammar as practiced in the 21st century, concentrating on both the philosophy and the practice of successful usage. This course is structured to illustrate that using English successfully is more of an art than a science. Description from mediabistro.com.

Duration: September 8 - October 5 with chats on Tuesdays from 10-11 pm EST

Price: $350 (Enroll by August 25 and save 25%)

Instructor: Gaylord Fields is currently a senior editor at AOL Music, and before his recent relocation to the web he spent most of the past 20 years as a copy editor or copy chief at Rolling Stone, This Old House Magazine, Spin, Spy, and Back Stage/Shoot. Bio from mediabistro.com.

Click here for more information about the Grammar, Punctuation, and Meaning online class.