UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SABANA

DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

WRITING CONVENTIONS LIST 2015-1
LEGEND

MEANING

SS

Sentence Structure

SP

Spelling

Missing Word

WP
SVA
WPR

Wrong Pronoun
Subject Verb
Agreement
Agreement
Wrong Preposition

WC

Wrong Connector

MISTAKE (examples)

CORRECTION (examples)

I want that you open the door (ss)

He said me hello. (ss)
Beatifull (sp)

I want you to open the door.

He said hello to me.
beautiful

^ Is important.
The only important ^ was to work.
Mara is my sister. He (wp) is 20 years old.
He walk (sva) to school everyday.
Colombian people is (sva) nice.
In (wpr) the other hand
He was in (wpr) the beach.
She is tall. However, (WC) she is intelligent.

It is important.
The only important thing was to work.
Mara is my sister. She is 20 years old.
He walks to school everyday.
Colombian people are nice.
On the other hand
He was at the beach.
She is tall and intelligent.

or^C insert
??

connector
Nonsense Idea
Isolated Idea

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VF

Verb Form

WV

Wrong Verb

WT

Wrong Tense

WO

Word Order

XYZ

Unnecessary Word

WW

Wrong Word

WA

Wrong Article

AF

Adjective Form

Comment: The teacher is not able to understand what the student is trying to communicate.
Mary had an excellent time in NY. //The traffic signals are easy to handle in NY\\. There she
visited a lot of tourist places.
She has been wait (vf) for 2 hours.
This is a way to protect herself and to avoid show (vf) what she really feels.

Mary had an excellent time in NY. There she visited a lot of tourist places.
She has been waiting (vf) for 2 hours.
This is a way to protect herself and to avoid showing what she really feels.

I have (wv) 20 years old.

I like to see (wv) TV.
Yesterday I go (wt) to the movies.
In her written journal, she argued that Joe become (wt) ill with cancer.

I am 20 years old.
I like to watch TV.
Yesterday I went to the movies.
In her written journal, she argued that Joe became ill with cancer.

She has eyes blue. (wo)

In the afternoon tomorrow (wo) he will travel to Israel.
His happy birthday is on January 15.
when somebody called to Alejandro
The Nile River is the largest (ww) river in the world.
The city of Bogot has (ww) the District Capital.
The (WA) France is having a rough winter.

She has blue eyes.

He will travel to Israel tomorrow afternoon.
His birthday is on January 15.
when somebody called Alejandro
The Nile River is the longest in the world.
The city of Bogot is the District Capital.
France is having a rough winter.
Sue had an excellent final exam.
The Eiffel Tower is taller than the Taj Mahal
The Nile River is the largest river in the world.
My children were playing in the street when they saw the accident.

S/P

Sue had a (WA) excellent final exam.

The Eiffel Tower is more tall (AF) than the Taj Mahal
The Nile River is the larger (AF) river in the world.
Singular-Plural form My child (p/s) were playing in the street when they saw the accident.

Rep

Repetition

Cap

Capitalization

PUN
FCG

Punctuation
False Cognate

Crepes staff are helpful (pun) friendly and polite (pun)

Actually (fcg) I am assisting (fcg) English classes.

Crepes staff are helpful, friendly and polite.

Currently I am attending English classes.

WExp

Wrong Expression

I could care less (WExp) if you bought a car.

I couldnt care less if you bought a car.

Marvels new film is very interesting (Rep) because it has an interesting (Rep) starring and a very Marvels new film is very interesting because it has a great starring and script.
interesting (Rep) script.
Many people visit madrid (Cap) every year. it (Cap) has become the driving force of the(Cap)
Many people visit Madrid every year. It has become the driving force of the Spanish
spanish economy nowadays.
economy nowadays.