Language, Style & Conventions — Chapter overview · English 9: Experience, Perspective & Inquiry, Grade 9
Edit a passage from your own draft for meaning, sentence boundaries, agreement, punctuation, word choice, and citation. Submit original and revised versions with explanations of six purposeful changes.
Chapter question
How can language, style & conventions help us examine experience, perspective & inquiry?
Units in this chapter
- Unit 7.1 · Syntax & Sentence Variety
I can vary sentence structure — simple, compound, complex, compound-complex — for clarity and effect.
- Unit 7.2 · Semicolons, Colons & Parallel Structure
I can use a semicolon to join two closely related independent clauses.
- Unit 7.3 · Tone, Diction & Register
I can analyze how word choice (diction) shapes tone in a text.
- Unit 7.4 · Academic (Tier 2) Vocabulary
I can determine the meaning of general academic (Tier 2) words from context.