{"id":284,"date":"2013-01-08T14:55:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T14:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/?p=284"},"modified":"2013-01-08T14:55:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T14:55:52","slug":"helping-your-students-avoid-common-grammatical-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2013\/01\/08\/helping-your-students-avoid-common-grammatical-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping your students avoid common grammatical errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a larger project working with colleagues in PHIR, Teaching Centre staff have put together a resource which highlights the 10 most common punctuation\/grammar errors. Aimed at first year students, the resource suggests pitfalls to avoid when beginning to write &#8216;in an academic style&#8217; &#8211; something which many students find challenging.\u00a0Although this version has been constructed using<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/?attachment_id=288\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-288\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-288 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px;border: 0px\" title=\"image of scrap of paper\" alt=\"scrap of paper showing commonly used abbreviations when texting\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Abbreviations_2924533_448x2912-300x194.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"94\" \/><\/a> discipline specific examples, other variants could easily be created if required.<\/p>\n<p>See:<a href=\"http:\/\/learn.lboro.ac.uk\/course\/view.php?id=4455\">http:\/\/learn.lboro.ac.uk\/course\/view.php?id=4455<\/a><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 scroll down to the last resource in block zero<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Please let us know what you think. <a href=\"mailto:c.smith3@lboro.ac.uk\">c.smith3@lboro.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a larger project working with colleagues in PHIR, Teaching Centre staff have put together a resource which highlights the 10 most common punctuation\/grammar errors. Aimed at first year students, the resource suggests pitfalls to avoid when beginning to write &#8216;in an academic style&#8217; &#8211; something which many students find challenging.\u00a0Although this version<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2013\/01\/08\/helping-your-students-avoid-common-grammatical-errors\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}