Inadequate grammar skills can significantly reduce your academic success, especially in written communication. In this course, you will develop and strengthen your understanding and use of English grammar structures in writing and speaking so that you communicate clearly in an academic setting. Practice and graded work will focus on demonstrating effective grammar in short writing assignments and other spoken and written exercises. Some of the grammar structures covered will be familiar to you and give you an opportunity to achieve an even greater mastery. Some points will be new or presented in a new way and will require more practice. By the end of the course, if you take advantage of all the study materials in and especially out of class, you should be able to isolate and correct most of your grammar errors as well show significantly more control of your grammar in spontaneous writing and speaking.