Writing Conferences Notes

Questions We Have Discussed in our Writing Conferences:

When do you use an apostrophe?
When do you use quotation marks, besides when someone is speaking?
When to you put a period instead of a comma?
Where, in a sentence, do you need to use commas?
What is the rule for using capital letters?
What is the difference between its and it's?
What is the difference between then and than?
What is the difference between there and their?
What is the difference between your and you're?
What is the difference between a first person narrative and the third person narrative?

These questions, and a few others, will be given to you in a quiz.  Please make sure that you know the answers.  Many of these questions are answered in my handouts, which are in the right-hand column of this blog.  You should be able to explain the answers to these questions,  and give examples in writing.