Thinking critically about punctuation
Look through a draft you have recently written or are working on, and check your use of parentheses, brackets, dashes, colons, slashes, and ellipses. Do you follow the conventions for those marks of punctuation as presented in your handbook? If not, revise accordingly. Check the material in parentheses to see if it could use more emphasis and thus be set off instead with dashes. Then check any material in dashes to see if it could do with less emphasis and thus be punctuated with commas or parentheses.
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Respond in the text box below. When you are finished, click Submit to record your answer. If your instructor has assigned this exercise, your answer will be submitted to the gradebook.
Look through a draft you have recently written or are working on, and check your use of parentheses, brackets, dashes, colons, slashes, and...