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Dawkins, John – 1994
The punctuation system presented in this paper has explanatory power insofar as it explains how good writers punctuate. The paper notes that good writers have learned, through reading, the differences among a hierarchy of marks and acquired a sense of independent clauses that allows them to use the hierarchy, along with a reader-sensitive notion…
Descriptors: Authors, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Punctuation
