LEL 3: Grammar Skills for Writing 2: Fine-tuning Punctuation

1. Interest level
This course was not really interesting. I thought it would teach how to use punctuation to add interesting effects in a sentence, but it was only about the grammar rules concerning punctuation and the correct use of punctuation in English language.

 2. Difficulty
The course is divided in four lessons. Lesson 1 - about colons and semicolons - was very easy, since we saw it in class when we talked about the sentence patterns. Lesson 2 - about apostrophes and dashes - was also very easy, since I learned a long time ago how to use apostrophes in English, and dashes are used the same way as in French. Lesson 3 - about quotation marks - was more tricky, because it was not like in French. Finally, lesson 4 - about hyphens, parentheses, brackets, ellipsis, diagonals and numbers - was not really hard, but it was certainly the most interesting part, because it was more complete.

3. What I learned
I learned where to place the punctuation in quotations in English. In French, we put the commas and the dots after the quotation mark; but in English they have to be placed before. I also learned that brackets have to be used to insert a parenthetical idea in another, instead of a second pair of parenthesis.

4. My score: 95/100

5. Course rating: 7/10
I think the course is relevant enough, but it could be improved by adding a lesson about how to use punctuation to create special effects in a text.