Trell staired at his friend Grey Cloud, the shadow dragon and asked, are you ready? <stop>
Trell answered back “how can anyone be ready to face… my mom when she get’s this onery!? Trell often refered to his mother as a lizardy old beast<stop>
my mother is a sweet woman, she just goes a little crazy when<stop>
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We are meeting at the library on Tuesday morning, so go there first.

We will be in room LI 207 (of the new library).

You need to bring a completed printout of the 5 questions available in the PDF for the Intermediate Research lessons. To get the PDF, do the following:

Go to the library home page.

Click on [...]

This paper is sometimes called the Rhetorical Analysis paper.
You are to use 2 texts from your research (you can use the one you already used for the Informative and Surprising essay), and analyze their rhetoric and ideas. Then, analyze them both together by comparing and contrasting, and finally, synthesize the information into your own, new, [...]

We are meeting at the library on Monday evening, so go there first.

We will be in room LC 207 (of the new library).

You need to bring a completed printout of the 5 questions available in the PDF for the Intermediate Research lessons. To get the PDF, do the following:

Go to the library home page.

Click on [...]

Your essay will be due soon!
Do you know what you are going to write it on?
Want some suggestions or help from your classmates?
Then this is the place to comment.

These chapters should mostly be review for you, but maybe you have questions or comments about the reading. If so, use this post to make comments.

I think one of the most common grammar mistakes is saying aint instead of are not or aren’t. Another thing is that adverb clauses are not independent clauses, so they cannot stand alone as sentences. Some examples of this are:
After it rains-It rains.
Although she was biking-She was biking.
While the cell’s shape changed-The cell’s shape kept [...]

Cheryl Carp’s article was naive and she came across as a “prisoner sycophant”. She tries to see the good side of the prisoners, but I thought the “clown club” was creepy.
Keri Ann Matsumoto was very effective with her thoughts on going organic. I don’t know if she convinced me to give up my “elitist” brown [...]

I found the reading by Cheryl Carp very interesting and also very surprising. I have a hard time believing that the average person would find a visit to a maximum security prison very uplifting. I would think that it would be more depressing. I think just by choosing the topic of hydrogen burning cars is a great way to catch a [...]

Comment here with one or two examples of poor grammar.
They can be from anywhere or anyone (you may want to hide or obscure identifying information to protect the grammatically ignorant).
Be sure to give an explanation about what is wrong with it (so we know you know, and to teach those who may not yet know).
A [...]