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CONVENTIONS OF COMPOSITION

I've been working on this website as a self-help-for-grammar page. I hope you find it useful.

  • If you're a teacher: use these numbers to mark student essays. Your students can look up the numbers to learn how to avoid repeating errors.
  • If you're a writer/student: look up the errors you know you make to learn how to avoid repeating them.

PURDUE'S PAGE ROCKS

For everyone who wants to write right, I recommend the Purdue University OWL page. It works especially well to explain common errors that second (or third or more) language learners make.

GRAMMAR GIRL

When I need to check my stuff, I look here.

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WHAT I DO

I teach English to high schoolers at a boarding school in Connecticut. I read AP English Literature and Composition exams and serve as a teacher mentor for the University of Pennsylvania Teaching Fellows program. I’ve earned a Bachelor of Arts (Amherst College), an Education Master in Learning and Teaching (Harvard University Graduate School of Education), a Master of Arts in English (Bread Loaf School of English), and most recently a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing with a certificate in the online teaching of writing (Southern New Hampshire University).

As a writer, I hope to capture the complexity and joy of life in the New England boarding school world. On this site, I share what I know about trying to write fiction while teaching English, coaching, and doing the other tasks associated with helping to raise over six hundred other people’s children.

WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU

Teach                    Tutor

Revise                   Edit

Entertain             Enlighten

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Contact Me

  • cgardine@hotchkiss.org

Read my recent “Why” Wednesday Blog Posts

  • 333. Why Join the Line
  • NetGalley Review of The Love Haters
  • 332. Why You Don’t Need to be Brave
  • NetGalley Review of What If It’s You?
  • 331. Why You Should Suck at Something New Every Year (Guest Post)
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