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Can you punctuate a quote?

How good are you at quotation punctuation? Everyone who writes news releases for a living knows the value of quotations. But surprisingly few people graduating from college today can actually punctuate sentences with quotations in them. Can you? Here are 10 punctuation challenges. A pro should be able to get all 10 correct. (1)   im proud […]

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Writing to Persuade & Get Paid

Some of what I learned in teaching persuasive writing 1.  Emphasize the connection between audience interests and client objectives 2.  Everybody needs to get better at punctuation and proofreading I just finished teaching a new course in persuasive writing at the Sage College of Albany called “Writing to Persuade and Get Paid.” My plan was to give […]

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