Blog Response: Editing Run-Ons (25 minutes)

Having gone over the methods for fixing run-ons, which can also be understood as sentence-combining techniques, you are going to use your Essay 1 content to work on using these editing/combining strategies.

Review your essay for either places where you have committed a run on OR for places where two back-to-back sentences could be combined using one of the methods.  

On your student blog, start a post entitled "Editing Run-Ons," and work on showing your edits for each of the five below.  Number each sentence so that I know which strategy you are using.

1. Making separate sentences

2. Use a comma and a coordinate conjunction

3. Use a semi-colon to connect two sentences

4. Use a semi-colon, followed by a conjunctive adverb, which is a type of transitional word or phrase)

5. Turn one sentence into the subordinate of the other!