Help your readers understand your writing easily and fully by leveraging the basics of good punctuation. In this course, instructor Mignon Fogarty, better known as Grammar Girl, shows you how. First, she introduces the apostrophe and how it is used to show ownership, make contractions, and occasionally form plurals. Next, Mignon dives into the many uses of commas, including after an introductory element, between different clauses, and as a serial comma. Learn how to use hyphens in compound modifiers, with prefixes, and as a suspensive hyphen. Find out how to use question marks in different types of questions. Explore how to use quotation marks with commas and periods, as well as with other punctuation marks. After this, Mignon walks you through using semicolons to join main clauses and in complicated lists. She also covers parentheses, abbreviations, asterisks, colons, and dashes, and more.

The new Yammer is an enterprise social network designed to help businesses get work done smarter and faster. In this course, Gini von Courter takes you through all of the essential features of Yammer. Learn how the new Yammer works and find out how to join or create a Yammer network at your organization. Discover how to communicate with colleagues using posts, messages, and chat; collaborate on files; and create and administer Yammer communities. Plus, find out how to get and give feedback with polls and praise.

You can't navigate your way to career success without first plotting a course. Having a career development strategy can be extremely helpful to figuring out where you want to go and exactly how to get there. This course, adapted from the Modern Mentor podcast, helps you plot your route to career success by providing a roadmap for professional development. Podcast host Rachel Cooke identifies the strategic actions you can take to build your knowledge, skills, and experience. She presents step-by-step advice for identifying career goals, finding mentors, cultivating unique and necessary skills, maintaining accountability, staying flexible, and investing in yourself.
This course was created by Macmillan Publishers. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.