English 2010
Intermediate Writing

Instructions for the Grammar Exercise

1. Go to www.dianahacker.com/writersref.
2. Click on either “Grammar Exercises” or “Writing Exercises.”
3. On the login page, click "Cancel." You'll be able to take the quizzes without logging in.
4. Select a quiz on a subject that you want to improve in. Some topics have multiple quizzes, so you may need to select a general topic and then a specific topic.
5. Before taking the quiz, study the rule in your Hacker handbook. The letter-number code in the title of the quiz corresponds with a section of your handbook.
6. Take the quiz. (Follow the instrcutions and move from question to question by clicking on the orange arrows.)
7. After answering the last question, click on the orange “Score.”
8. Click on “Print Score” at the bottom of the page. (Either print the results or copy and paste them into an email.)
9. Write a short paragraph (no more than a half-page) evaluating this exercise as a learning experience. What did you learn? What is still unclear? How helpful was it? This paragraph should be typed to receive full credit and may be emailed to me.
10. On the day the Grammar Exercise is due, turn in the print-out of your results and the paragraph you’ve written (unless you have already emailed them).