[LM_NET] GEN: Every Punctuation Mark Matters: A Mini-Lesson on Semicolons

[Sybil Finemel <sfinemel@COMCAST.NET>]

From: readwritethink

Every Punctuation Mark Matters: A Mini-Lesson on Semicolons

" Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" demonstrates that
even the smallest punctuation mark signals a stylistic decision,
distinguishing one writer from another and enabling an author to move an
audience."


http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=260


Sybil Finemel

Library Director MLIS.CIO.

Los Angeles CA

Contributor, lii.org, Librarians' Index to the Internet http://lii.org/

Virtual Reference Desk Volunteer

24/7 Reference Librarian.

sfinemel@comcast.net

"Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe,
corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant,
steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in."

Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

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