INI204Y1 Chapter Notes -George Zweig, Consilience, Pandulf Verraccio
12 Mar 2014
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Many students do not take full advantage of punctuation. They never venture beyond the comma and the period the two punctuation marks that nobody can do without. Some are afraid that if they use other forms of punctuation, they will do so incorrectly, so they never take the risk. Learning to punctuate effectively does involve learning the rules, and this handout summarizes the most important of them. But learning to punctuate is about much more than rules. Punctuation, when skillfully deployed, provides you with considerable control over meaning and tone. Try to experiment with all forms of punctuation in order to expand your expressive range as a writer. And observe closely how accomplished writers use punctuation to good effect. This handout limits itself to punctuation that occurs within sentences: commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, and parentheses. Commas are the most frequently used form of punctuation and probably the hardest to master.
