Instructor's Notes

To assign the lettered questions that appear in the exercises for this unit, go to "Browse Resources for this Unit" or to the "Resources" tab. Students can also complete the numbered exercises for practice.To assign LearningCurve adaptive quizzing activities on the topics covered in this unit, go to the LearningCurve unit that follows this one.To download handouts of the Learning by Doing activities that appear in this unit, and to access lecture slides, teaching tips, and Instructor's Manual materials, go to the "Instructor Resources" folder at the end of this unit.

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Mechanics

Learning by Doing Justifying Conventions

Working with a group, select a troublesome convention for using hyphens, italics, or other mechanics. Read through one section about that mark, and decode that guideline. Then try to figure out why you think this convention is expected in academic writing and how you can remember to apply it. (Feel free to make up humorous examples to help you more consistently follow convention.)