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This course includes:

  • 3.5 hours on-demand video
  • 31 downloadable resources
  • Full lifetime access
  • Access on mobile and TV
Teaching & Academics Language Punctuation

How to Punctuate Spelling: to improve spelling & writing

From apostrophes to hyphens - an intermediate course to understand and master the tricky punctuation marks in spellings
Rating: 4.9 out of 54.9 (39 ratings)
290 students
Created by Joanne Rudling
Last updated 6/2020
English
English
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What you'll learn

  • Improve and be more confident with their spelling
  • Use capital letters correctly & make their writing look more professional
  • Use apostrophes for contractions and possession correctly
  • Use memory tricks to help remembering which homophone is which in tricky words with apostrophes
  • Learn how to use hyphens to make compound words and how to use them in compound adjectives
  • Learn the proper punctuation for numbers, dates, and times in British and American English

Requirements

  • Native speakers who can read and write but need help with spelling
  • Ideal for people who have finished the Spelling Rules: to improve spelling & confidence course
  • Ideal for anyone who needs to improve their business, academic, formal writing.
  • ESL, second language, students who have excellent English.

Description

From the creator of Udemy's popular Spelling Rules: to improve spelling & confidence, comes the perfect follow-on course - How to Punctuate Spelling: to improve spelling & writing to give you even more spelling knowledge and confidence to spell, write and get your meaning across.

This is ideal for both American & British English users who need to understand and "master" the tricky punctuation marks we put in spellings, especially apostrophes (you're, I'm, Joanne's course) and hyphens (good-looking, a 3-year-old, sister-in-law). You'll also learn how to punctuate abbreviations (CD/CDs, Dr./Dr, gym), when to use capital letters (I've, Samsung, Harry Potter), and how to write dates, and time, and much more.

Knowing how to use these in your spellings will help you get your point across, will stop you getting confused and angry with spelling and yourself. Emails, and social media have all made writing important again, and it's a shame if you can't express yourself properly in these, or you spend so long trying to spell or figure out how to use an apostrophe, or not, that you give up. Knowing these will help you so much and make your writing look professional and not sloppy, or like you don't care.  

It's a video based course with additional PDF worksheets for revision, and exercises and spelling tests in the Resources too,

Who this course is for:

  • English speakers who need help with their spelling

Course content

6 sections • 36 lectures • 3h 33m total length

  • Preview03:49
  • Preview07:48
  • Preview08:53

  • Capital letters part 1 - video
    10:34
  • capital letters part 1 exercise
    13 questions
  • Capital letters part 2 - video
    08:33
  • capital letters part 2 exercise
    10 questions
  • Tricky capitals
    02:50

  • Preview03:06
  • Abbreviations - shortenings video
    07:19
  • abbreviations - shortenings exercise
    13 questions
  • Abbreviations - contractions video
    05:54
  • Mr/Mrs or Mr./Mrs.
    01:13
  • Abbreviations - initialisms and acronyms video
    06:22
  • initialisms & acronyms exercise
    14 questions
  • More common initialisms & revision video
    04:54

  • Introduction to the apostrophe section video
    02:44
  • Apostrophes for contractions video
    06:21
  • Apostrophes for contractions spelling test
    04:30
  • Apostrophes for contractions exercise
    12 questions
  • Apostrophes & homophones video
    08:33
  • they're, there, their spelling test
    06:29
  • they're, there, their exercise
    12 questions
  • you're or your spelling test
    06:42
  • you're or your exercise
    12 questions
  • it's or its spelling test
    05:38
  • it's or its exercise
    10 questions
  • we're or were
    06:06
  • we're or were exercise
    10 questions
  • Contractions & homophones with 'd
    01:59
  • Contractions with 'will'
    05:52
  • who's or whose
    08:01
  • who's or whose exercise
    12 questions
  • Apostrophes for possession video
    10:56
  • Apostrophes revision video
    07:07
  • Apostrophes & indefinite pronouns video
    07:40
  • until vs. till
    02:23

  • Introducing hyphens & compound words video
    06:49
  • Hyphens: numbers & compound adjectives video
    06:13
  • Hyphens and adjectives video
    04:34
  • Hyphens and prefixes video
    07:38
  • Useful, fun hyphenated words video
    04:05

  • Punctuating & writing numbers video
    04:01
  • Writing ordinal numbers video
    07:04
  • ordinal numbers exercise
    15 questions
  • Punctuating time video
    04:56
  • Punctuating & writing dates video
    05:55

Instructor

Joanne Rudling
Lecturer, teacher trainer, tutor, online course developer
Joanne Rudling
  • 4.6 Instructor Rating
  • 429 Reviews
  • 2,253 Students
  • 2 Courses

Joanne Rudling has over 20 years' experience teaching spelling, English, literacy, EFL and writing. She's the owner of a spelling website for adults (howtospell) where she develops online courses, and writes books, which are available on Amazon and her website.

She's worked in various organisations in the UK including City of Westminster College, Bournemouth & Poole College, and Bournemouth Film School.

She has developed and taught on literacy projects for the Pre-Volunteer Programme for the Olympics, and the RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind.) And delivered seminars, training courses and CPD (Continued Profession Development) sessions for teachers and lecturers on literacy and spelling.

She's also worked with Amazon drama division editing their American closed captions/subtitles to British spellings.

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