Grappling with grammar

Feeling tense about tense? Are you cool, calm and collected about collectives? Are you singular about getting plurals right?

So sorry for the puns - sometimes it's just irresistible!!

We have lots of resources to get your grammar in shape. Regardless of your sphere of writing (engineering, computer science, maths) nothing cheapens a sentence more than glaring grammar errors.

Here is a quick review of some grammar goodies (as you can see, this Learning Adviser is hooked on alliteration).

• Quick Clicks is a blog consisting of handy, printable 'quick' tips and tactics for grammar, writing and academic skills. What science writer would not be excited by Abstracts, Introductions and Conclusions; Punctuation marks: Colons and Semi-Colons or Presenting your own opinion without using 'I' ?
  
• Learning Connection's English Language Proficiency site is a pretty official-sounding name for some very cool resources around reading, writing, listening and speaking.
  
• Something we are really excited about (and hot off the press) is the Grammar Gang Blog - YOUR writing community. This a venture between our esteemed colleagues at Purdue University and the Learning Advisers at UniSA. It's early days for the Owls (Purdue) and Possums (UniSA), but we'd like you to vote on the poll, sign up and feel free to post your grammar questions (you can check anonymous or sign in with a Google account).

Andrea (on behalf of Helen)