Writing in a Visual Age

Exercise Central
Customized Lesson Plan for Writing in a Visual Age

Exercise Central contains hundreds of exercise sets designed to help students learn grammatical concepts and practice editing their work for problems with grammar, style, punctuation, and mechanics.

Click on the topic that you would like to study in order to access a table of applicable exercises. For most exercises, you will receive a score at the end. For exercises where items can have more than one correct answer, you will see a suggested answer for each item.


Grammatical Sentences
Sentence Fragments
Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
Verbs
Subject-Verb Agreement
Pronoun Case
Pronoun Reference
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Adjectives and Adverbs
Shifts

Effective Sentences
Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Incomplete Sentences
Mixed Constructions and Faulty Predication
Parallel Structure
Coordination and Subordination
Sentence Variety

Word Choice
Appropriateness
Exact Words
Bias-Free Language
Wordiness

Punctuation
End Punctuation
The Comma
The Semicolon
The Colon
The Apostrophe
Quotation Marks
The Dash
Parenthesis, Brackets, and the Ellipsis Mark

Mechanics
Abbreviations
Capital Letters
Numbers
Italics
The Hyphen
Spelling

Research Writing
Writing and Research Exercises


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