The hardest part of this weeks punctuation exercises were the hyphens, semi colons, dashes and parentheses. Maybe it is because I don't use them very often. I had problems figuring out where to put hyphens and semi colons. Some of the things that I thought were correct punctuation usage turned out to be completely wrong. For example, I learned not to use a comma to precede a partial quotation and use the comma if the quotation is a full sentence.
Some of this was touch up and review from English 1010 and 2010, but most of it takes logical and accurate thinking on my part. I think that we have all become a bit lazy in spelling and proper punctuation because we have programs that will spell the word and punctuate the paper correctly.
I did not see and editing mistakes lately, but I have noticed that whenever I see and email or a text message, the spelling and punctuation are terrible. It would seem that in a world that is dominated by technology, spelling and punctuation errors are commonplace in today's society. I'm just as guilty as everyone else. I almost don't care if I spell something right because I can just spell check it later. On another note, are any of you having problems commenting on the blog? I tried figuring it out with Dr. J, however we were unsuccessful and I still cannot comment on anyone's blog. Please Help!
I did not grow up with all the technology that you did, so I have always been really picky about spelling. I have to be because I usually can't figure out how to make my spell check work. My kids make fun of me because it takes me forever to text. I have to make sure that everything is spelled and puncutated correctly. However, as I did the assignment this week it came as a surprise to find out that I am not the great speller that I thought I was.
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