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English Brushup, 3e Book Cover
English Brushup, 3/e
John Langan
Janet Goldstein
Run-Ons

Writing On/Off

These writing prompts are followed by text boxes for your input. If you are working online and your instructor has given you the go-ahead, you can e-mail your work to him or her and also to yourself by copying your answers (CTRL-C on most systems) and pasting them (CTRL-V) into an email or text document.





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Activity 1:

Take a look at this passage from James Joyce's Ulysses. What's going on here? Why do you think he's using all these run-on sentences? What would one lose by "correcting" them? Is this style appropriate to a typical college essay?

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Activity 2:

Directions: For additional help with identifying and avoiding run-ons, visit The Purdue University Writing Lab. Take notes on what you've learned during your visit.









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