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Other

Sta: Punctuation and Capitalization Rules

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this handy guide for a quick reference to punctuation and capitalization rules. Includes rules for end marks, apostrophes, capitalization, commas, quotation marks, and many more!
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Period

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource detailing the uses and rules of the grammatical element "the period." Also includes information about the period in sentences, quotation marks, parentheses, and abbreviations.
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Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Guide to Grammar and Style: Titles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains information regarding the correct use of italics in titles.
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Other

Frequently Asked Questions Concerning Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides the answers to six frequently asked questions regarding punctuation. For example, "Should I use a comma before AND in a series?" The question "Do commas and periods go inside our outside the closing quotation mark?" is...
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SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Italics & Underlining

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains information regarding the correct use of italics and underlining, along with many examples.
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Other

Sandhills Community College: Punctuation Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Lists, defines and describes the uses of many elements of English punctuation, including the period, comma, semicolon, colon, apostrophe, quotation, hyphen, and dash. Includes several examples.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation of the uses of italics and underlining. Links to additional information are provided.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Quotations Within Quotations: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces the punctuation rules for including a quotation within a quotation. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Quotations within Quotations."
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining: Names Ships and Trains

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation and examples using italics/underlining when writing the names of spacecraft, aircraft, ships, and trains.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Characterization Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This learning module incorporates materials to support the instruction of characterization approaches that are used by authors. A PowerPoint lesson on characterization is available. An additional lesson plan on the topic of...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Brackets

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on brackets by providing background information and uses including the following: clarify details, adding emphasis, modifying quoted material, and marking errors in quotations using [sic]. It provides...
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Other

Webfoot.com: A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email Format

For Students 9th - 10th
This guide explains what types of formats you should use in your email messages to insure the receiver will receive your message as intended. This website covers fancy text, extended character sets, web links, punctuation and quotation...