{"pk":36247,"title":"Glue: A Technique for Eliminating Fragments and Run-Ons","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Many students who are nonnative speakers of English, yet highly proficient, are placed into basic writing or English as a Second Language courses when they enter college. While these students may have advanced oral English proficiency, their writing frequently suffers from a lack of training in academic writing and commonly contains fragments and run-ons, a frustrating sentence-level problem for these students. A review of current writing texts uncovered a general failure to treat these problems as a sentence-boundary issue. The approach taken here is that such students will be able to monitor their writing for incorrectly formed sentences if given a system designed to help them understand English sentence structure. The key concept is Glue, a term used for all clause markers. Working through exercises, in which they label the Glue and systematically identify fragments, run-ons, and complete sentences, students see a system emerging, which brings them to an understanding of English written conventions. Using Glue, the students gain control of their writing and are able to avoid fragments and run-ons.","language":"eng","license":null,"keywords":[],"section":"CATESOL Exchanges","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/54674451","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Helaine","middle_name":"W.","last_name":"Marshall","name_suffix":"","institution":"Long Island University, New York","department":""},{"first_name":"Andrea","middle_name":"","last_name":"DeCapua","name_suffix":"","institution":"The College of New Rochelle, New York","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2010-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/catesoljournal/article/36247/galley/27099/download/"}]}