NCO Primary Leadership Subjects
Lesson 2
Using Punctuation
Overview
Writers use punctuation marks to clearly communicate a message to readers. Too
Lesson
description little or too much punctuation can make the meaning of your writing
unclear.
This lesson provides rules and practice for using punctuation marks in writing simple
and compound sentences, quotations, parenthetical remarks, and paragraphs.
The enabling learning objective (ELO) for this lesson is:
Enabling
learning
objective
Apply the rules of correct punctuation to writing samples.
Action
Given the material in this lesson.
Condition
Apply the rules of correct punctuation for commas,
Standard
semicolons, quotation marks, italics and underlining,
parentheses, dashes, brackets, hyphens, and apostrophes.
Writing Mechanics and Composition
2-1
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