How to Punctuate Spelling: to improve spelling & writing
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
3 lectures • 21minIntroduction
- Preview03:49
- Preview07:48
- Preview08:53
3 lectures • 22minUsing Capital Letters
6 lectures • 29minAbbreviations
15 lectures • 1hr 31minUsing Apostrophes
5 lectures • 29minBuilding Words with Hyphens
4 lectures • 22minPunctuating & writing numbers, dates, & times
Instructor
![Joanne Rudling](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 399 Reviews
- 1,988 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.