Punctuation: Apostrophes and Full Stops Louise Livesey Academic Skills Adviser This workshop will − Refresh your understanding of apostrophes and full stops − Provide tips for the appropriate use of apostrophes and full stops − Provide practice and follow-on activities for you to be able continue to improve your use of punctuation
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Punctuation: Apostrophes and Full Stops Louise Livesey Academic
Skills Adviser This workshop will Refresh your understanding of
apostrophes and full stops Provide tips for the appropriate use of
apostrophes and full stops Provide practice and follow-on
activities for you to be able continue to improve your use of
punctuation
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1.The jobs apostrophes do 2.Contractions 3.Its/its and
there/theyre/their 4.Where to place apostrophes with plural nouns
5.Apostrophes and numbers 6.Acronyms, initialisms and apostrophes
7.Full stops Todays Plan
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1.The Apostrophe Substitution Possession
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Clear slide for writing on 1.The Apostrophe
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Shortened words using an apostrophe DontDo not WasntWas not
CantCannot Its It is Not in academic work except Quotations
Acronyms and initialisms 2.Contractions
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Its and its Use expansion: does it is make sense? 3.Its/its and
there/theyre/their Their/there/theyre Space and time: there
Expansion: theyre Elimination: their
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Possession/substitution The cats collar is red The cats collars
are red For plurals, no second s after the apostrophe 4.Where to
place apostrophes with plural nouns
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Adding apostrophes Decades: the 1980s (there is not
substitution and no possession) Any other number: in his 40s (there
is no substitution and no possession) For plurals: Levi 501s (there
is no substitution and no possession) 5.Apostrophes and
numbers
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Words/terms made up of capital letters: NATO and WWF Generally
no full stops in between letters Apostrophes do not act as
substitutes, full stops do Treat an acronym/initialism like a word
6.Acronyms, initialisms and apostrophes
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Full stops and quotes Full stops outside quotation marks
Question and exclamation marks inside quotation marks If citation,
full stop outside bracket 7.Full stops
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Full stops and abbreviations 7.Full stops Shortenings: full
stop if created for writing Do not need another full stop at end of
sentence if sentence finishes with an abbreviation with a full stop
Contractions: letters from middle of word Initialisms: terms from
initial letters Acronyms: words from initial letters
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Question: who can you go to in the university for
proof-reading, assignment checking or assisted editing?
Proofreading Nobody
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References Clip Art basketball Elma, J. (2007) Apostrophes dont
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[Accessed 7.7.2014]Apostrophes dont swing both ways Hanesi: B.
(2013). In Turkish, the apostrophe (') and Punctuation Grammar
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Paterson, K. (2012) Improve your grammar. Basingstoke: Palgrave
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References Oxford Dictionaries. (2014) Abbreviations. Oxford:
OUP. [online] Available at:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/abbreviations [Accessed
9.7.2014] http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/abbreviations
Sauter, J. (2008) The Apostrophe character rendered using the OCR-A
font. Florida: Wikimedia Commons. [online] Available at:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OCR-A_char_Apostrophe.svg
[Accessed
7.7.2014]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OCR-A_char_Apostrophe.svg
Super Teacher Worksheets. (2013) There, Their, Theyre.
Tonawanda:Super Teacher Worksheets. Available at:
http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/homophones/there-their-theyre.pdfhttp://www.superteacherworksheets.com/homophones/there-their-theyre.pdf
(Accessed 16.6.2014) The University of Wisconsin-Madison. (2014)
10: Apostrophe errors. Madison: The University of Wisconsin-
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https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/CommonErrors_Apos.htmlhttps://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/CommonErrors_Apos.html
[Accessed 7.7.2014]
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Academic Skills Advice Service Where are we? Chesham Building
B0.23 What do we do? Support undergraduate students with their
academic skills by running clinics and workshops, having bookable
appointment slots, and enabling students to drop-in for Instant
Action. Who are we? Michael and Helen specialise in Maths Support;
Lucy and Russell advise students on study skills; and I (Louise)
deliver the workshops When can you come for help? Everyday both
face to face and on-line How do I get in touch? Email: academic-
[email protected] or website www.brad.ac.uk/academic-
skillsacademic- [email protected]