Sentence Structures

Sentences convey ideas and how they are related. They may have multiple ideas and relationships, so different structures help to separate a sentence’s information. Descriptions Examples Word order is a language’s mostly fixed sequence for ideas and relationships,...

Course Planning

Writing Requirements: An overview of writing requirements at UCI. CWC Faculty Resources and Guidelines for Upper-Division Writing Courses: Upper-division writing course guidelines, as well as instructions on how to propose such a course. Sample Syllabi: Sample syllabi...

Word Choice & Word Form

Word choice and word form indicate a writer’s familiarity and their intended reader’s familiarity in a context by following systematic rules and idiosyncratic rules. Descriptions Examples Fixed phrases are word combinations that appear together in high frequency in a...

Noun Determiners

Noun determiners appear with nouns to add specificity, ownership, or quantity. Descriptions Examples Articles specify to the reader if the noun refers to one specific idea, one example in a group, or all of them everywhere. It is common for ∅ team members to...