Sunshine State Sue Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 Clonlara's experienced, professional Advisors guide you through student assessment; design, development and delivery of curriculum, and evaluation of learning. Would you say this sentence is punctuated correctly? And what do you think the difference is between student assessment and evaluation of learning? Would student assessment be an assessment of that point in time (as compared to peers) and evaluation of learning be over the course of time (generally a year)? Looks like I'm giving myself a lesson in reading comprehension, eh? ;) Thanks for your opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary in VA Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 "Clonlara's experienced, professional Advisors guide you through student assessment; design, development and delivery of curriculum, and evaluation of learning. " I think the advisors help with assessment of the student. Then based on that assessment they design, develop and deliver a curriculum. After the curriculum is used the evaluate the learning. Does that make sense with what you were thinking? HTH, Mary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarlaS Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 It looks odd, but I think that's one of the two ways to use a semicolon. It does seem redundant though to use both "assessment" and "evaluation". It's awkward at the very least - if not incorrect. Why would they capitalize "advisors"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladydusk Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 (edited) My first thought was that a ":" would be preferable to the ";", but I'm not sure that design, development and delivery of curriculumfits into "student assessment." Maybe something like "guide you through the educational process" ... ETA: Hmmmm ... well I totally read the sentence wrong. I agree with the others that "... student assessment; design, development of curriculum; and evaluation of learning." would be the way to punctuate as written. Edited July 19, 2009 by ladydusk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melinda in VT Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 "Clonlara's experienced, professional Advisors guide you through student assessment; design, development and delivery of curriculum, and evaluation of learning. " I think the advisors help with assessment of the student. Then based on that assessment they design, develop and deliver a curriculum. After the curriculum is used the evaluate the learning. Does that make sense with what you were thinking? HTH, Mary :iagree: The last comma should be a semi-colon. Can we lowercase Advisors while we're at it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshine State Sue Posted July 19, 2009 Author Share Posted July 19, 2009 :iagree: The last comma should be a semi-colon. Can we lowercase Advisors while we're at it? Okay, quick consensus on last comma ought to be a semi-colon and advisors should be lowercase. Actually spell check (on TWTM board) likes advisers and not advisors. But, I get the drift either way. Now for the meaning: Clonlara's experienced, professional advisors guide you through student assessment; design, development and delivery of curriculum; and evaluation of learning. To me, this means that the advisors: guide you through student assessment guide you through design, development and delivery of curriculum guide you through evaluation of learning I would love it if (as Mary in VA says) that the advisor designed, developed, and delivered the curriculum. Any other opinions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladydusk Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 Quote: Clonlara's experienced, professional advisors guide you through student assessment; design, development and delivery of curriculum; and evaluation of learning. To me, this means that the advisors: guide you through student assessment guide you through design, development and delivery of curriculum guide you through evaluation of learning Maybe: "Clonlara's experienced, professional advisors guide you through: [initial] student assessment; design, development and delivery of curriculum; and evaluation of learning." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacy in NJ Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 So the semicolon is being used to separate elements of a series that have commas within them? If that's true, and it depends on the meaning of he sentence, the last comma should be a semicolon. I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ekarl2 Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 Sue, Look at the semi-colon notes in your AG book. That use of the semi-colon instead of the comma is what we call the "super comma." Hope that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshine State Sue Posted July 19, 2009 Author Share Posted July 19, 2009 Sue, Look at the semi-colon notes in your AG book. That use of the semi-colon instead of the comma is what we call the "super comma." Hope that helps. Thanks, Erin. I'll check it. We start Season 3 on Monday. I thought that the last comma should be a semi-colon. You would think that at a school's website...But then, no one's perfect. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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