Writing Skills II, Homework for Week 14

For homework, please:
1. Make sure you bring the pupil essay for revision with you to our final meeting next week.
2. Read about transitivity in English here: http://grammar.about.com/od/tz/g/Transitivity-grammar.htm and make sure that you look up the transitivity of verbs you use in English. (This is part of the greater linguistic topic of valency, but I have noticed that students assume that the German verbs will operate in the same ways that English ones do, and this is not always the case. You must look this up in a dictionary with context. Good dictionaries will give you valency information.)
3. Read up on the distinction between "that" and "which": https://www.grammarly.com/blog/which-vs-that/
4. Do this quiz on restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses: http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/clauses-6.html
5. Read up on avoiding wordiness (notice that it often has to do with translating from the passive to the active voice): http://www2.isu.edu/success/writing/handouts/wordiness.pdf
6. Here is a nice selection of verbs used in academic contexts (make sure you understand their valencies, however): http://www.englishlearnsite.com/vocabulary/the-most-common-verbs-used-in-academic-writing/
7. Some of you need to review:
comma rules: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/02/
rules for possessives:  http://www.ef.com/english-resources/english-grammar/forming-possessive/
rules for paragraph organization in English: http://www2.ivcc.edu/rambo/eng1001/paragraph_organization.htm