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6.1  Section Preview: Mechanics & Conventions

Essential Questions:
  1. How can you use the "rules for writing" to make your writing effective and easy to follow?
  2. What are the basic rules for grammar, usage, punctuation, spelling, and paragraphing?
Writer's Terms
    Grammar: The study of how words and their component parts combine to form sentences.
    Punctuation: The use of standard marks and signs in writing and printing to separate words into sentences, clauses, and phrases in order to clarify meaning.
    Spelling: The forming of words with letters in an accepted and familiar order.


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