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John Dawkins. Teaching Punctuation as a Rhetorical Tool.

Dawkins, John. "Teaching Punctuation as a Rhetorical Tool." CCC 46.4 (1995): 533-548.

Abstract:

Claiming that handbooks problematically teach punctuation as grammatically wrong or right, Dawkins outlines how writers can be taught to use a hierarchy of punctuation marks: ones that mark degrees of separation between independent clauses and thereby fashion and enhance meaning.

Works Citing

Listed below are links to articles that reference John Dawkins. Teaching Punctuation as a Rhetorical Tool.

» Nancy Mann. Point Counterpoint: Teaching Punctuation As Information Management. from CCC Online

» Douglas Downs and Elizabeth Wardle. Teaching about Writing, Righting Misconceptions: (Re)Envisioning "First-Year Composition" as "Introduction to Writing Studies." from CCC Online

Works Cited
Dawkins, John. Rethinking Punctuation. ERIC ED 340 048. 1992.
Levinson, Joan Persily, Punctuation and the Orthographic Sentence. Diss. City U of New York, 1985.
---. "The Linguistic Status of the Orthographic (Text) Sentence." CUNY Forum 14 (1989): 113-17.
Quirk, Randolph, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, and Jan Svartvic. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman, 1985.
Summey. George. American Punctuation. New York: Ronald, 1949.
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