BLOG NUMBER FIVE!

Hello fellow bloggers and communication editors! 

I am excited we are on week number five, and really excited for this new week coming up. This week I am talking about good grammar on the web. This is a great topic, because we live in a world where most everything we do is online or on some sort of device. If you think about our day-to-day lives, we tend to be on some sort of device with some sort of internet connection, for the majority of our day. While browsing on the web, there are certain places that need to be cautious about their grammar. The news and media are one of them. I read KSL often, and to my understanding they have great up to date news stories from Utah as well as some stories from the world. When or if they make a mistake, it is noticed because most readers notice (if they are aware of correct grammar). One other place that I notice grammar is on blog posts. I read a few different fashion and lifestyle blogs for pleasure, and there are more mistakes on them than I have ever noticed! I would have never known before this class, but I now know what the difference is between “are” and “is”, and when it is ok to say them.

One thing that I noticed this week, as I was creating a proposal I caught myself making a mistake. I did not notice it at the beginning, until I was having someone back check my work and she corrected it. I learned that if you are quoting someone, you put punctuation marks on the inside of the quotation marks. If you have parenthesis, than you put it on the outside of them.