Business Writing Series: Highlights of Grammar and Punctuation 2024

Overview

People often judge our intelligence, professionalism, and competence in our grammar and punctuation. Don’t let simple errors undermine your messaging or hamper your organization’s ability to move ahead. This fast-paced webinar will teach you the secrets to common grammar and punctuation issues, including singular-plural agreement, sentence structure, and dangling modifiers. You’ll review the right usage of the comma, hyphen, apostrophe, and semicolon. In addition, you can ask the instructor questions about any aspect of this topic. This program moves quickly as terrifying topics in school become easy to understand.

Highlights

• Common grammar errors and how to correct them
• Common punctuation errors and how to correct them

Prerequisites

None

Designed For

Young professionals, staff and managers.

Objectives

• Identify independent and dependent clauses in a sentence
• Apply gender-appropriate language
• Correct errors in singular-plural agreement
• Correct dangling modifiers
• Correct errors in comma usage
• Correct errors in the use of the apostrophe, hyphen and semicolon

Preparation

None

Notice

This course is provided by a third-party vendor. Please note that login instructions will not be available in the ‘My Upcoming CPE’ section of the NESCPA website. Instead, the login instructions will be sent directly to you via email by the California Education Foundation (CalCPA). Upon completing the course, your hours will be recorded in the ‘My CPE Tracker’ section of the NESCPA website.