Students will examine conventions of grammar and style to understand how they are derived and applied in common formal and informal writing situations. Students will experiment with prose style as a way to achieve rhetorical effectiveness. Students will study aspects of grammar that are most relevant to clear writing, including punctuation, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, phrases, clauses, gerunds, participles, infinitives, and complete sentences. Sentence imitation, sentence combining, and sentence invention techniques are used to help students become more flexible in their syntactic fluidity.