- Self-paced instruction
- 9 video lessons
- 4 hours of lesson content
- Grammar exercises
- Led by an industry expert
- Lifetime access
Who Should Take This Course
Writers, Journalists, Copywriters, Copy Editors, Proofreaders, PR and Communications Professionals, Marketers
Skills You Will Learn
Identify major parts of speech
Ensure subjects, verbs, and objects agree and punctuation serves the sentence
Craft a perfect sentence
Define exactly what style is and why it differs from style guide to style guide
Why Take This Course
It’s easy to forget the basic rules of grammar and punctuation when you are firing off texts and tweets at rapid speed. That makes it all the more important to refresh and ingrain fundamental writing rules into your bones.
This course will enhance your knowledge of grammatical building blocks, help you navigate grammar and style rules, and teach you to apply these best practices to produce clear, concise and engaging content for editorial, business or any other written communication.
Session 1
Demystify Parts of Speech
- Lesson 1: Parts of Speech - Nouns to Adverbs
- Lesson 2: Intensive Tenses
Session 2
Punchy Punctuation and Sensational Sentences
- Lesson 1: Commas, Interjections and Sentence Structure
Session 3
Punchy Punctuation and Sensational Sentences II - Electric Boogaloo
- Lesson 1: Commas in Combination with Conjunctions and Adjectives
Session 4
Frequently Confused Words and the Most Common Grammatical Errors
- Lesson 1: Tricky Numbers, Indefinite Pronouns and Singular vs. Plural
Gaylord Fields is editor, special projects at RollingStone.com. Prior to this, he was senior editor at AOL Music and a copy editor and copy chief at Rolling Stone, This Old House, Spin, and Spy. He is also a longtime writer of articles and reviews on music and popular culture. While Gaylord has a definite opinion on use of the serial comma, he saves such discussions for parties.
