Openly Punctuating

In English last week we worked on the weird and wacky punctuation marks that will come up in our paper writing. Mr. Sitze, a well-known advocate of the weird and wacky, had four groups created, each of which was to learn about, and present the information on one of the four punctuation marks. As previously stated, we learned about for punctuation marks: the colon, the semicolon, the hyphen, and the dash. For over forty-seven minutes we gave or listened to presentations and learned about these words. My relationship with these particular grammar terms has not always been a happy one; I have lost points on many assignments due to improperly using these. The colon especially I have always been scared to use~ in last years paper over theme analysis there was a place I needed to use a list on, and out of fear I simply made a new sentence to avoid missing points. I sincerely hope my relationship will improve this year; I feel I learned quite a bit from the presentations, and hope I have a chance to incorporate these into writing. I think my peers did a very good job, especially in the presentation on hyphens: Dylan and Gage did a very good job with the examples, and had more to say, but cut it short to save time. I hope from these presentations I will be able to far more effectively use the four punctuation marks~ the colon, the dash, the semicolon, and the hyphen.