Conquer the Comma...and Other Punctuation Marks
Taught by Grace Duggan
Grace Duggan is an editor with more than nine years of experience editing everything from blog posts, employee handbooks, and annual reports to websites, scholarly articles, and billboards. She provides expertise in developmental editing, technical editing, copy editing, and proofreading on projects for non-profits, advertising agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and independent authors, among others. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Bust, and GLASS.
Confused by commas? Skeptical about semicolons? Daunted by dashes? This class will clear up the confusion you have about the peskier rules of punctuation. You'll leave with the knowledge you need to correctly use the full range of punctuation marks, which is a great way to strengthen and vary your writing.
We'll focus on the comma, easily the most abused and confusing punctuation mark. We'll also discuss the rules behind semicolons, colons, hyphens, dashes, parentheses, quotation marks, ellipses, square brackets, ampersands, and bullets.