Use commas to enhance readability.

Use periods, question marks, and exclamation points correctly.

Use quotation marks to show that you have borrowed words.

Use apostrophes to signal contractions and possessives.

Use colons to point to what comes next.

Use semicolons between equivalent elements

Use hyphens, dashes, parentheses, brackets, ellipsis marks, and slashes appropriately.

Use sentence capitalization, italics, abbreviations, and acronyms to convey information to your readers clearly and concisely.