Question Marks
The Question Mark: It Raises Some Good Questions Question marks are pretty simple. You should use a question mark at the end of a question like this: However, there is one situation involving question...
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Quotation Marks
Don’t Forget the Quotation Marks Quotation marks are how we tell our readers we are including words that aren't our own. Whether we're using dialog or quote material from our research, quotation marks are...
Semicolons
The Semicolon: It’s Not a Strong Comma It’s true. The semicolon is used for more things than just winking in text. ;) One of the main uses of a semicolon is to separate two...
Putting It All Together
You have certainly had a lot to take in as you considered each type of punctuation. To help you review, watch and listen to the presentation below, which provides a basic overview of what...
Time to Write
Now that you have a stronger understanding of the punctuation rules, it’s time to think about how these rules might apply to your own writing. One key strategy is to think about areas in...
Nouns
A noun is a person, place, object, idea, or event. “The word noun, in fact, comes from nomen, the Latin word for name” (Kolln, 1994, p. 276). Nouns are the first words you learned...
Web Pages
Writing for the Web Just as when you write an essay, when you write for the web, you want to make sure your ideas are clear and that you consider your audience as you...
Photo Essays
A photo essay is simply an essay that uses images to tell a story or make a point. In a photo essay, images are placed in a specific order in order to send a...
Video Essays
Much like photo essays and traditional essays, video essays tell a story or make a point. The difference is that video essays use video to present the information. When you make a video essay,...
E-Portfolios
In effort to save paper and give students an opportunity to share their work in a course on the web, even face-to-face writing classes are making the move to e-portfolios. A portfolio is essentially...