We are pleased to announce the results of the fifth SLC Undergraduate Writing Contest for Fall 2020. Congratulations to all the winners! 

Should of? Or is it should have? Me and Kate went shopping, or is it Kate and I? SLC English as Additional Language Peer, Jyot K, shares some of the common faux pas of English writing.  

Want to learn a quick, and Halloween-appropriate, strategy for checking if your sentence is in the active or passive voice?

Read on, if you dare... 

For the third year in a row, the SLC will host an undergraduate writing contest. 

All contest details, and the submission page, can be found here: https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/slc-uwc

The contest opens on November 29th and  submissions will continue to be accepted until January 5th 2020 (at midnight).

Sharing more of the six word stories we have collected by asking members of the SLC community to reflect on their mistakes and/or what they've learned from them. Enjoy! Maybe you'll see yourself in some of these micro-stories! I know I do... :}

Welcome to second installment of our Grammar Camp series on the Parts of Speech. 

If you didn't catch it or want to review, check out last week's post, which covered nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and verbs.

This week's post covers adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. 

Thanks for Dr. Amanda Goldrick-Jones, SLC Writing Coordinator, for developing and sharing this content. 

In this Grammar Camp post, Dr. Amanda Goldrick-Jones, SLC Writing Coordinator, provides an overview of 4 basic parts of speech. There are 8 basic parts of speech, so stay tuned for next week's post about the last 4, and for two self-test quizzes for you to test out your newly acquired grammar know-how!

You can also jump to Part 2.