Exercise 40.5: Thinking Critically

EXERCISE 40.5: THINKING CRITICALLY

Thinking about Your Own Use of Punctuation

Look through a draft you have recently written or are working on, and then check your use of parentheses, brackets, dashes, colons, slashes, and ellipses. Do you follow the conventions presented in this chapter? 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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Exercise 40.5: Thinking Critically: Look through a draft you have recently written or are working on, and then check your use of parentheses, brackets, dashes, colons, slashes, and ellipses. Do you follow the conventions presented in this chapter? 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.