Punctuation

Sites that specialize in punctuation

These are the best punctuation sites we have found on the Web.

• Punctuation Made Simple
• The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation  lecturer and consultant Jane Straus, Mill Valley, California. Covers the punctuation marks from apostrophes through semicolons with rules, examples, exercises and a practice test. Also includes capitalization rules.
• Chapter 3. Punctuation from Grammar, Punctuation, and Capitalization: A Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors Mary K. McCaskill, Langley Research Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Hampton, Virginia This chapter addresses the marks of punctuation, in alphabetical order, presenting their functions, situations when the marks are required or incorrect and situations when the marks are appropriate but optional.
• Chapter 6. Punctuation from Language Skills for Journalists R. Thomas Berner, professor of journalism, Pennsylvania State University Covers sentencing-ending punctuation -- the period, question marks and exclamation marks -- and punctuation within a sentence, including apostrophes, hyphens and quotation marks.
• A Functional Guide to Some Problems of English Punctuation Tim Caudery, Department of English, University of Aarhus, Denmark Unlike guides that organize punctuation usage under various punctuation marks, this guide is organized according to the functions of punctuation, the different things that punctuation can be used for.
• Guides for the Grammatically Perplexed Arnie Keller, Department of English, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Focuses on one punctuation mark at the moment with The Comma Cruncher: How To Make Your Comma Behave Themselves and a step by step guide for where the comma goes and doesn't go.
• One Space After Punctuation! William S. Rafaill, coordinator of student technology literacy, Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky Despite what your typing teacher taught you, "Use only one space after periods, colons, exclamation points, question marks, quotation marks."
• PMS: Punctuation Made Simple Gary A. Olson, from JAC Online: A Journal for Composition Theory. These articles will give you a sense of how to use colons, semicolons, commas, dashes and apostrophes in your prose.
• Punctuation Purdue University Online Writing Lab, West Lafayette, Indiana Rules and exercises covering commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, hyphens and other punctuation marks.
• Punctuation Frances Peck, Writing Centre, University of Ottawa Several sections can help you understand and use different types of punctuation more effectively in your writing. Includes exercises on identifying errors and adding punctuation.
• Reference Sheet on Punctuation and Capitalization Student Learning Assistance Center, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos Style guides and rules for using commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, italics, quotation marks, hyphens, parentheses and apostrophes.
• It's versus Its. Gary Shapiro's page on It's versus Its
• Gallery of ''Misused'' Quotation Marks - They're quotation marks, and they turn up in the strangest of places.
• Punctuation Made Simple - Discussion of several of the most useful punctuation marks. By Gary A. Olson.
• Sue Palmer's Language LIVE - Language LIVE is about the bits of English language many people think are boring - spelling, punctuation and grammar.

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