Grammar, Puncuations, and Mechanics Can Improve Writing Skills

A sentence is the most fundamental and versatile tool available to writers, but sentence faults and issues with pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and verbs can cause difficulties for your readers. Sentence- level errors, like inaccurate facts or incomplete information, can confuse, irritate, or even mislead your readers. These errors can make your meaning hard to determine or, even worse, alter your meaning entirely.

Misuse of punctuation can cause your readers to also misunderstand your meaning because punctuation marks may link, separate, enclose, terminate, classify, and indicate omissions from sentences. Certain mechanical questions tend to confound the writer on the job.Such questions as whether a number should be written as a word or figure, how acronyms should be used, whether a date should be stated day-month-year or month-day-year and many others frequently arise when you are writing a letter or report.

Listed below are different sites that could help improve and refresh your writing skills:

• Owl Online Writing Lab: Powerpoint Presentations
• 40+ Tips to Improve your Grammar and Punctuation
  
• Basic Sentences Structure
• Tips For Using Commas
• Ten Quick Tips to Improve Your Writing
• Ten Tips for Stronger Sentence Structure
• Punctuation Tips
• More to come...

These are just a few sites that could help you refresh, improve, understand, teach, or use in your writings everyday. It is important to understand these most commonly made mistakes because this mistakes could make your letter, email, resume, propoasl, etc. be misunderstood or mislead. Knowing these basic skills again could help improve you writing and help you find new ways to get it across to other co-workers and students. Writing is a big part of everyday life, why not make it as perfect as you can?