Just a refresher

This is from a website I read. I feel like no matter how much experience we have, its good to have a refresher on the basics! Enjoy!


English Grammar 101: Sentences, Clauses and Phrases
Welcome to English Grammar 101, the newest category on Daily Writing Tips. I thought that creating a series of posts covering the basic grammar rules and parts of speech would be useful to many people, especially if you consider the diversity of our readership.

On this first post we’ll cover sentences, clauses and phrases.

Sentences
Sentences are made of two parts: the subject and the predicate.

The subject is the person or thing that acts or is described in the sentence. The predicate, on the other hand, is that action or description.

Complete sentences need both the subject and the predicate.

Clauses
Sentences can be broken down into clauses. For example:

The boy is going to the school, and he is going to eat there.

This is a complete sentence composed of two clauses. There are mainly two types of clauses: independent clauses and subordinate clauses.

Independent clauses act as complete sentences, while subordinate clauses cannot stand alone and need another clause to complete their meaning. For example:

Independent clause: “The boy went to the school.”
Subordinate clause: “After the boy went to the school…”

Phrases
A group of two or more grammatically linked words that do not have subject and predicate is a phrase. For example:

The girl is at home, and tomorrow she is going to the amusement park.

You can see that “the amusement park” is a phrase located in the second clause of the complete sentence above.

Phrases act like parts of speech inside clauses. That is, they can act as nouns, adjectives, adverbs and so on.

Helpful Resources for Writers/Editors

Hi Everyone,
I hope to find you all doing well. I just wanted to write a message to share an article I found that provides some helpful resources for Writers/Editors. The article was recently published in the Signals newsletter, which is a monthly newsletter published by the Association of Communication Excellence to which I am a member.

The article can be found at the following address on pg. 7: http://www.aceweb.org/publications/SignalsMayJune08.pdf

Feel free to check it out! :)

Kaye

Favorite Resources/References?

In conjunction with one of my goals, I am going to create a bi-weekly newsletter for the L&D practice area. I would like to include links to information about training, instructional design, writing, and agriculture. Hopefully, the billable work will slow down next week so I can send out the first edition. With that in mind, I would like to ask you ladies what are your favorite resources that you use as reference information or to stay up-to-date with happenings in our fields?

My examples:
--The Rapid eLearning Blog
--The eLearning Guild
--Central Indiana ASTD newsletters
--The Beef Blog
--National Hog Farmer Magazine
--Nutrient Management eNewsletter (by National Hog Farmer, BEEF, and Hay & Forage Grower magazines)
--ClearWriter Tip of the Week eNewsletter
--Online Writing Lab (OWL)

Now, it's your turn. Have a great weekend, everyone!

Something to Reference :)

I "Stumbled Upon" this and found it useful. Sometimes in our attempts to be well-versed in our writing, we run out of vocabulary. :) This is a helpful tool!!

LOGICAL RELATIONSHIP and TRANSITIONAL EXPRESSION

Similarity
also, in the same way, just as ... so too, likewise, similarly
Exception/Contrast
but, however, in spite of, on the one hand ... on the other hand, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, in contrast, on the contrary, still, yet
Sequence/Order
first, second, third, ... next, then, finally
Time
after, afterward, at last, before, currently, during, earlier, immediately, later, meanwhile, now, recently, simultaneously, subsequently, then
Example
for example, for instance, namely, specifically, to illustrate
Emphasis
even, indeed, in fact, of course, truly
Place/Position
above, adjacent, below, beyond, here, in front, in back, nearby, there
Cause and Effect
accordingly, consequently, hence, so, therefore, thus
Additional Support or Evidence
additionally, again, also, and, as well, besides, equally important, further, furthermore, in addition, moreover, then
Conclusion/Summary
finally, in a word, in brief, in conclusion, in the end, in the final analysis, on the whole, thus, to conclude, to summarize, in sum, in summary

Professional Organizations

Hi Everyone,
I hope you all are doing well and work is going well . I just wanted to write to you all to ask and few questions and gain insight on some different professional organizations that I am considering joining.

Are any of you a member of the International Society for Performance Improvement or the American Society of Training and Development?

If so, what you do like about the organization in which you are a member and how has the organization or organizations helped you in your current position?

Any feedback would be awesome. Take care and hope to talk with you all soon! :-)

Kaye

Please...Help with Standards!

As I posted about last time, I'm continuing to try to find time to work on the Development standards. I know that everyone is really busy, but if you can find an extra half-hour of time (maybe in-between projects or at the end of the day when there's not enough time to start something new) I would really appreciate you all's opinions. Many of us writers have been involved with varying aspects of development, and it's always beneficial to have an "outsider's" perspective on what has been written. Due to a lack of formalized development processes, we have all developed our own "best practices". What I'm asking of you is to review the draft standards that I have written, and make edits/comments as needed.

I have created a spot on Sharepoint to post the standards so they can be kept confidential and we can utilize version control. It is: http://sharepoint/Training/Documents/Quality%20Initiative--INTERN1/

Remember, if you've not yet gotten your goals approved, there is a section where you can contribute directly to the Quality Initiative by writing 8 standards.

Thanks to all in advance for your help!

Goals

Hello Everyone!

I hope everyone is doing well. I know that deadlines have been crazy busy this week!

I just wanted to remind everyone about SMART goals. I sat down with Andrew today to have a discussion how to write measurable goals. I had totally forgotten what the acronym was. It is:

S-pecific
M-easurable
A-ttainable
R-ealistic
T-imely

I know you all probably have your goals written, but I thought maybe this would be a good refresher.

For my individual goals, I am planning on learning more about writing effective learning objectives. I also want to know more about creating basic image treatments.

What are you guys doing for your goals?