Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Reading

• John Dawkins, “Teaching Punctuation as a Rhetorical Tool” (handout)
• Pico Iyer, “In Praise of the Humble Comma” (handout)

Notes

Consider ways in which you might use Dawkins’s advice in your own (previous & future) writing.

If you’re interested in arcane discussions of grammar, you might be interested in John Gruber’s commentary on this article in the New York Times (note: the error in the quoted material isn’t an “itso”). If you’re interested in the process of revision — and you should be! — you might want to read his follow-up to some of his readers’ comments.

Office hours today are cancelled; apologies.