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Focus On Common Errors
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One of the challenges in the teaching of grammar is the fact that students have received different kinds of training and different amounts of training. A presentation on the punctuation of compound sentences -- always a crowd pleaser -- may be "old hat" to some students and a revelation to others. The good news is that a relatively short list of errors in usage, grammar, punctuation, and spelling accounts for almost all the mechanical faults seen in student papers. You may find it helpful to browse sites that feature the 10 or 20 most common mistakes in student writing.
Preliminary Quiz
This site at Acadia University provides help with the 10 errors the English Department faculty members find most often in their students' written work. Unfortunately, the diagnostic quizzes are available only to students at Acadia.
 Preliminary Quiz
The UVic Writer's Guide: A Summary of Common Errors
These pages profile and rehabilitate many of the usual suspects: the comma splice, run-on sentences, sentence fragments, wordiness, overuse of the passive voice, faulty parallelism, faulty agreement, insufficient variation, misplaced modifiers, dangling modifiers, squinting modifiers, and mixed metaphor.
The UVic Writer's Guide: A Summary of Common Errors
Grammar Handbook: Most Common Grammar Errors Arranged According to Level of Frequency as Rated By Tech Professors
This site features a run-down of the most persistent mechanical errors seen and reported by the faculty at Virginia Tech. The explanations of the errors are brief and concise. Hopefully, no visitor to the site will continue to make these mistakes in their essays.
Grammar Handbook: Most Common Grammar Errors Arranged According to Level of Frequency as Rated By Te
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