The Road to Easy Writing

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The Road to Easy Writing

• Tabitha D. Anderson
• EDU 506-02
• October 28, 2000

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Editing skills are a part of our everyday life.
If you do not know the rules of editing,
punctuation, and capitalization and how to use
them properly, then your writing can look like a
foreign language. This web quest is going to
tell you about the correct ways in which to use
these skills.
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• Editing skills are important in our everyday
  writing.
• Here are some of the objectives that will be
  covered in
• this web quest.
• You will understand what editing skills are and
  why they are important.
• You will understand the rules to capitalization
  and the proper usage of those rules.
• You will understand the different types of
  punctuation and when they should be used.
• You will have the opportunity to practice the
  skills you have learned.
• You will maintain an Editing Journal to keep up
  with your activities.

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• This site gives an
• overview of punctuation
• usage. You will find
• Many of the different
• types of punctuation
• marks. This site gives
• you the rules for the
• punctuation marks as
• well as some examples.

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• This site tells you
• all about capitalization.
• You will find out which
• words should be
• capitalized. There are
• special cases for
• capitalizing.

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• 3. This site gives you the
• general rules to
• capitalization. For
• example, did you know
• that the first word of
• every sentence is
• capitalized? What about
• the first person singular
• pronoun for myself?
• What do you do with
• proper nouns?

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• The Punctuation Tree
• (Arboretus Punctuationitis)
• provides information on
• several punctuation
• marks. Do you know
• what punctuation mark
• follows a question? Did
• you know that sentences
• can end with one of four
• types of punctuation
• marks?

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• This site gives you
• the rules for comma
• usage. Commas are
• used in many different
• instances. This is one
• punctuation mark that
• is used in many
• Different ways.

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When you have completed this WebQuest, you should
have a better understanding of many of the
punctuation marks and when is appropriate to use
each of them. You should know what words need to
be capitalized and when. If you have
successfully completed all of the activities on
this WebQuest, then you should feel confident
that you understand all of the rules of
punctuation marks and capitalization. You can
link to a Power Point Presentation from here.