Program Overview

Modern American Usage

Course Description

The Modern American Usage course, ELING 322, focuses on current conventions and effective use of American English.

Course Benefits

• 14-day full refund guarantee
  • This guarantee allows students to enroll risk-free.
• Free tutoring included
  • Students receive complimentary tutoring support.
• Start anytime, work at your own pace
  • The course offers flexible scheduling to accommodate different learning styles.

Instructor

• Jacob Rawlins

Credit Hours

• 3.00

Tuition

• $768.00
• Plus textbooks.

Course Details

Prerequisites

• ELANG 223 (Introduction to the English Language)
• LING 201 (Introduction to Linguistics [Modern])
• Concurrent enrollment in one of the above courses is also accepted.

Course Outline

• Lesson 1: What is Usage
• Lesson 2: Attitudes toward Change in the Language
• Lesson 3: Finding Answers to Usage Questions in Dictionaries and Usage References
• Lesson 4: Variation in Language
• Lesson 5: Foundations in Educated Usage
• Lesson 6: The History of Usage Scholarship: Cultural Levels and Functional Varieties
• Lesson 7: Varieties of English (Dialects)
• Lesson 8: My Usage History: Unit 1 Exam
• Lesson 9: Commonly Confused Words
• Lesson 10: Debated Usage Items
• Lesson 11: More Debated Usage Items
• Lesson 12: Pronoun Case and Usage, and Pronoun Reference and Agreement
• Lesson 13: Other (Somewhat) Purist Distinctions
• Lesson 14: Sexist and Racist Language (Inclusive Language)
• Lesson 15: Sentence Style, Punctuation and Mechanics
• Lesson 16: More Sentence Style and Sentence Errors
• Lesson 17: The Art of Punctuation
• Lesson 18: The Art of Punctuation: Enclosing Marks
• Lesson 19: Mechanics and Other Marks of Punctuation

Textbooks

• Index to English (Required) by Wilma R. Ebbitt and David R. Ebbitt, published by Oxford University Press in 1990.
• Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage (Required) by Merriam Webster, published in 1994.
• The Brief Penguin Handbook- 3rd Edition (Optional) by Lester Faigley, published by Pearson in 2003.