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Dawkins, John – 1992
Punctuation, the original purpose of which was elocutionary, evolved a syntactic purpose as silent reading became more common. Despite the great similarity of punctuation rules among handbooks and manuals, punctuation has not been completely standardized. Punctuation practices vary from genre to genre, and the "best" fiction and…
Descriptors: Authors, Fiction, Grammar, Nonfiction

Neumeyer, Peter F. – English Journal, 1975
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Language Rhythm, Literary Styles, Punctuation
Johnson, Eric W. – 1976
Written to provide a quick, simple, practical reference, this handbook contains explanations and examples of the use of English. Entries, arranged alphabetically, may be as specific as "bibliography,""colons,""dashes,""footnotes," and "prefixes" or as general as articles on cliches, books, figurative language, frame tests, grammar, and plagiarism.…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Guides, Punctuation
Ediger, Marlow – 2001
The paper's first section discusses the connection between personalized reading and punctuation for young primary grade students, with some specific sentences and teaching ideas. Next, the paper describes 10 kinds of written work, done for specific purposes, that may be used with early primary students to emphasize this personalized connection. It…
Descriptors: Curriculum, English Instruction, Language Arts, Primary Education

Hendrickson, John – College Composition and Communication, 1971
Descriptors: Dialects, Grammar, Language Usage, Orthographic Symbols
Limaye, Mohan R. – ABCA Bulletin, 1983
Explains and illustrates some rarely explained and often underemphasized punctuation principles. (AEA)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literature Reviews, Punctuation, Sentence Structure

Dillon, J. T. – Journal of Higher Education, 1982
Titular colonicity (presence of colon in title) is shown to index the progress of scholarship over a century. Analysis of 1,150 titles in education, psychology, and literary criticism reveals use of the colon in the majority of contemporary titles across disciplines, thereby demonstrating the progressive complexity of scholarship. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Knowledge Level, Models, Punctuation

Wulfemeyer, K. Tim – Journalism Educator, 1977
Describes the effectiveness of grammar, punctuation, and spelling review sessions in improving journalism students' writing. (KS)
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Journalism Education, Punctuation

Otto, Wayne – Journal of Reading, 1989
Responds to letters from readers in response to recent "Research" columns. Deals with the issues of learning disabilities, whole language approach, the "skills" perspective, junk food textbooks, and punctuation. (RS)
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Punctuation

Chafe, Wallace – Written Communication, 1988
Points to introspective evidence that both writers and readers experience auditory imagery of intonations, accents, and hesitations in written language. Suggests that some aspects of this "written language prosody" are made partially overt through punctuation. (RAE)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Imagery, Intonation, Punctuation
Martens, Vanessa E. G.; de Jong, Peter F. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
Research with adults has shown that the distortion of visual word features, and in particular of the multiletter features within words, hampers word recognition. In this study, "CaSe MiXiNg" was employed to examine the effect of disrupting visual word features on the acquisition of orthographic knowledge in children. During the training, 18…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Word Recognition, Reading Rate, Spelling
Beene, LynnDianne – 1996
Good writing is good sentences. It is a simple truth that many in the business of teaching writing have strayed from. Good writing is a first sentence that makes a reader want to read the second sentence, a second sentence that makes a reader want to read the third, and so on. Erika Lindemann suggests that certain types of sentence instruction can…
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Punctuation, Sentences
Reid, Wallis; Gildin, Bonny – 1982
Punctuation is not necessary in a sentence if a pair of adjacent words suggests an intentional conceptual relationship. However, when the pair suggests a relationship that is not a part of the intended communication, the writer must alert the reader, so some punctuation is necessary. When members of an adjacent pair do not suggest a plausible…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Punctuation, Semantics
Winger, Fred E. – Business Education World, 1976
A detailed step-by-step description of a punctuation proficiency project utilizing a pretest, practice, and post-test plan is provided. (BP)
Descriptors: Action Research, Business Education, Evaluation Methods, Punctuation

Mickel, Stan – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1988
Provides a brief history of Chinese punctuation and detailed analysis of modern Chinese punctuation. Three tables show: 1) uniquely Chinese punctuation markers; 2) markers graphemically identical and functionally similar to Western markers; and 3) markers graphemically identical but functionally different from Western markers. Each punctuation…
Descriptors: Chinese, Diacritical Marking, Interference (Language), Punctuation