If you don't know how to write, get someone who does to write your article - or don't submit it to me. I've seen articles with great content that I have to completely edit before I'll put them in front of my readers - or I won't run them. If you don't want your article edited when you send it to me, you had better be sure it is correct. Since I believe my readers are entitled to high quality content, I also see no point in offending them with poor grammar, incorrect spelling and punctuation or sloppy sentence structure. Allow me to give you a few tips on the more grievous of the errors I receive.
Quotation marks go outside the punctuation mark.
Cutsie characters before, after or within your sentences make you look like an amateur, or a 5th grader writing a valentine. Spend your time creating a good article and save the art work for something appropriate. When you use periods to leave a thought hanging or to connect to another thought, they are NOT connected to other words. It is a sequence of ONLY 3 periods and substitutes for an unlimited number of words. Take that sentence with 40 words in it and break it into more than one sentence.