Writing with Proper Punctuation/ with Mignon Fogarty.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Fogarty, Mignon, speaker.

Contributor:

linkedin.com (Firm)

Language:

English

Genre:

Instructional films.

Educational films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Carpenteria, CA: linkedinchescom, 2020.

System Details:

Latest version of the following browsers: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Internet Explorer. Adobe Flash Player Pluginches JavaScript and cookies must be enabled. A broadband Internet connection.

Summary:

Good punctuation creates signposts in your sentences, telling your readers when to pause, what to expect next, and more. Learn how to use punctuation with confidence.

Help your readers understand your writing easily and fully by leveraging the basics of good punctuation. In this course, instructor Mignon Fogarty, better known as Grammar Girl, shows you how. First, she introduces the apostrophe and how it is used to show ownership, make contractions, and occasionally form plurals. Next, Mignon dives into the many uses of commas, including after an introductory element, between different clauses, and as a serial comma. Learn how to use hyphens in compound modifiers, with prefixes, and as a suspensive hyphen. Find out how to use question marks in different types of questions. Explore how to use quotation marks with commas and periods, as well as with other punctuation marks. After this, Mignon walks you through using semicolons to join main clauses and in complicated lists. She also covers parentheses, abbreviations, asterisks, colons, and dashes, and more.

Participant:

Presenter: Mignon Fogarty

Notes:

12/23/2020

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.