10106108Proofreading and Editing
Course Information
Description
Develop and refine writing skills with a focus on effective communication within the professional workplace. Review grammar, punctuation, and word usage skills. Proofread and edit business documents for appropriate content and clarity.
Total Credits
3
Prior Learning Assessment
  • Exam-College Developed Challenge Exam
  • Transfer Credit (includes Certifications)
Course Competencies
  1. Identify the eight parts of speech.
    Assessment Strategies
    by completing and submitting grammar assignments, practical application activities, projects, or other work assigned.
    by completing assessments.
    by participating in class discussions and/or collaborative blogs and Wikis.
    through the development and submission of a Capstone Project.
    Criteria
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct identification and use of nouns and pronouns
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct identification and use of verbs
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct identification and use of adverbs
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct identification and use of adjectives
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct identification and use of prepositions
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct identification and use of conjunctions
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct identification and use of interjections

  2. Identify sentence elements, varieties, and patterns.
    Assessment Strategies
    by completing and submitting assignments, practical application activities, projects, or other work assigned.
    by completing assessments.
    by participating in class discussions and/or collaborative blogs and Wikis.
    through the development and submission of a Capstone Project.
    Criteria
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned demonstrate recognition of basic sentence elements, including subjects and predicates
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned have correct use of phrases, dependent clauses, and independent clauses
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned have correct use of simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned demonstrate correct identification of sentence patterns
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned are correctly punctuated
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned demonstrates appropriate techniques to avoid sentence faults: fragments, comma splices, and run-on sentences

  3. Demonstrate correct use of nouns and pronouns.
    Assessment Strategies
    by completing and submitting grammar assignments, practical application activities, projects, or other work assigned
    by completing assessments.
    by participating in class discussions and/or collaborative blogs and Wikis.
    through the development and submission of a Capstone Project.
    Criteria
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of nouns and pronouns
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of plurals
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct plural form for numbers, surnames, proper nouns, compound nouns, letters, abbreviations, and acronyms
    assignments, assessments, and other work include correct construction of possessives
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include use of guidelines for personal, possessive, demonstrative, and reflexive pronouns
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include choosing the correct personal pronoun
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct agreement between pronouns and antecedents
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include the correct use of who and whom and whoever and whomever

  4. Identify verbs and demonstrate agreement between subject and verb.
    Assessment Strategies
    by completing and submitting grammar assignments, practical application activities, projects, or other work assigned.
    by completing assessments.
    by participating in class discussions and/or collaborative blogs and Wikis.
    through the development and submission of a Capstone Project.
    Criteria
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct identification of types of verbs: transitive, intransitive, linking, and helping verbs
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of active-voice and passive-voice verbs
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of present, past, and future verb tenses
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of participles, gerunds, and infinitives
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct identification and correction of dangling verbal phrases
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include the correct identification and use of irregular verbs
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of progressive and perfect verb tenses
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correctly locating subjects of verbs
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned have correct subject and verb agreement
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include the correct agreement of verbs with subject, indefinite pronouns, and collective nouns
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include the correct use of subject-verb agreement with phrases and clauses as subjects and with subject complements

  5. Demonstrate the correct use of adjectives and adverbs.
    Assessment Strategies
    by completing and submitting grammar assignments, practical application activities, projects, or other work assigned.
    by completing assessments.
    by participating in class discussions and/or collaborative blogs and Wikis.
    through the development and submission of a Capstone Project.
    Criteria
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include the correct use of adjectives and adverbs in sentences
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include the correct formation of comparative and superlative degrees of regular and irregular adjectives and adverbs
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include the correct use of articles, demonstrative adjectives, possessive adjectives, compound adjectives, and independent adjectives.
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include the correct placement of adjectives and adverbs when making comparisons within a group

  6. Demonstrate the correct use of prepositions and conjunctions.
    Assessment Strategies
    by completing and submitting grammar assignments, practical application activities, projects, or other work assigned.
    by completing assessments.
    by participating in class discussions and/or collaborative blogs and Wikis.
    through the development and submission of a Capstone Project.
    Criteria
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of prepositions
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include identification and use of necessary prepositions, omission of unnecessary prepositions, and avoidance of formal sentence structure with terminal prepositions.
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct sentence construction and correct use of idioms
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of coordinating conjunctions
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct punctuation of compound sentences
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of subordinating conjunctions
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of complex sentence patterns

  7. Demonstrate the correct use of commas, semicolons, and colons.
    Assessment Strategies
    by completing and submitting grammar assignments, practical application activities, projects, or other work assigned.
    by completing assessments.
    by participating in class discussions and/or collaborative blogs and Wikis.
    through the development and submission of a Capstone Project.
    Criteria
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include the correct use of commas
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of commas to indicate omitted words and contrasting statements, to separate repeated words, for clarity, and with short quotations
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include the correct use of semicolons in compound sentences
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include the correct use of semicolons to separate items in a series
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of colons to introduce listed items
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include the correct use of commas and semicolons preceding expressions such as namely, for instance, and that is
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include the correct use of colons in business letter salutations, website addresses, time, ratios, and publication titles

  8. Demonstrate the correct use of other punctuation.
    Assessment Strategies
    by completing and submitting grammar assignments, practical application activities, projects, or other work assigned.
    by completing assessments.
    by participating in class discussions and/or collaborative blogs and Wikis.
    through the development and submission of a Capstone Project.
    Criteria
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of end punctuation
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of hyphens
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of dashes and parentheses
    assignments, quizzes, and other work assigned include correct use of quotation marks
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of punctuation in relation to quotation marks
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of italics, brackets, apostrophes, ampersands, the at symbol, and number sign

  9. Demonstrate the correct use of capitalization in business writing.
    Assessment Strategies
    by completing and submitting grammar assignments, practical application activities, projects, or other work assigned.
    by completing assessments.
    by participating in class discussions and/or collaborative blogs and Wikis.
    through the development and submission of a Capstone Project.
    Criteria
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of sentence capitalization rules
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of capitalization in business correspondence
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of capitalization with numbered and lettered items
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of special rules of capitalization in business writing

  10. Demonstrate the correct use of numbers in business writing.
    Assessment Strategies
    by completing and submitting grammar assignments, practical application activities, projects, or other work assigned.
    by completing assessments.
    by participating in class discussions and/or collaborative blogs and Wikis.
    through the development and submission of a Capstone Project.
    Criteria
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of figure and word forms to express general numbers, numbers at the beginning of sentences, and numbers requiring hyphens and commas
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of business writing guidelines for expressing related and consecutive numbers
    assignments, assessments, and other work assigned include correct use of business writing guidelines for weights, measurements, temperature, fractions, percentages, decimals, grades, scores, voting results, and ordinals

  11. Proofread and edit business documents for appropriate content and clarity.
    Assessment Strategies
    by completing and submitting grammar assignments, practical application activities, projects, or other work assigned.
    by completing assessments.
    by participating in class discussions and/or collaborative blogs and Wikis.
    through the development and submission of a Capstone Project.
    Criteria
    assignments, assessments, collaborative blogs, Wikis, and Capstone Project are accurate, reflecting solid proofreading skills

  12. Use the Internet to access information on grammar and business writing.
    Assessment Strategies
    by completing and submitting grammar assignments, practical application activities, projects, or other work assigned.
    by participating in class discussions and/or collaborative blogs and Wikis.
    through the development and submission of a Capstone Project.
    Criteria
    assignments include the URLs of grammar websites used for completing the work
    Capstone Project includes the URLs of grammar websites used to complete the project