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Typical
Cornerstone Writing Projects
- Summaries
of business articles
- Marketing
case studies
- Marketing
plans
- Memos
addressing a variety of topics
- Hypothetical
business law cases
- Retirement
plans
- Group
reports about major corporations
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Cornerstone
Clients Frequently Ask Us About
- Grammar
and mechanics
- Does it
make sense?
- Does it
flow?
- Format
- Citations
(MLA/APA, electronic citations)
- Answering
the assignment question
- Help with
long papers (group consultations)
- Jargon
getting in the way of meaning
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Common
Issues in Cornerstone Papers
- Lack of
clarity
- Inconsistent
voice in group papers
- Punctuation
- Various
comma usage problems
- Semicolon
needed to fix a comma splice
- Colons
after fragments or phrases
- Capitalization
- Underline,
italicize, or put quotation marks around titles
- Grammar
- Agreement
- Missing
Articles (ESL students)
- Parallelism
- Dangling
or misplaced modifiers
- Fragments
- Poor
word choice/spelling
- Pronoun
reference
- Run-on
sentences
- Plagiarism
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General
Advice for Consultants
- Remember
to check the assignment sheet.
- Start
with global concerns.
- Question
format as well as content.
- In providing
grammar suggestions, pay special attention to pronouns.
- Refer
writers to business writing books, Editor, computer thesauri/spellcheckers,
the dictionary, etc. Don't try to quote rules from memory. The Gregg
Reference Manual is one of several useful handbooks for business
papers.
- To save
time with recurring grammar problems, explain the relevant rule (write
it on the ROC--quote the handbook you've consulted) and help clients
practice finding their own errors.
- Don't
try to scrutinize every millimeter of a lengthy paper. The UWC
Operations Manual contains advice for dealing with long papers (Strategies
for Working with Long Paper, section 1-49) and groups (Working with
Groups, section 1-25).
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