Have a look at the article on the back of the photocopy I distributed today with the comma/semicolon exercise. Consider how you can transfer the informal register to a formal one (and how you can transfer the expression of personal opinion to persuasive academic prose) and bring these notes with you to class.
Read through the advacned comma rules and rules on semicolons and colons here:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/02/
http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/semicolons.asp
And complete the following exercises:
http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/semicolons_and_colons_1.asp
http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/semicolons_and_colons_2.asp
http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/commas_1.asp
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