Lukeman Exercise 3 | Melissa Erickson

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LUKEMAN EXCERCISE THREE

I am really glad I received the opportunity to read this book, and apply it to works I had already written. I've never been one for "correct" punctuation. I would always just cruise along, plopping commas in wherever I "felt like it." Reading Lukeman gave me a better understanding of the effect punctuation has on writing when used properly.

I have never realized the power that a colon could have when used correctly. It really made something of importance stand out from the rest of the text.
Using semi-colons helped my work too by making it flow alot better together, rather than have a whole bunch of short sentences. The semi-colon connected this sentences, and the piece flowed much more smoothly. Of course, these are only a few examples from what I learned in this section; there are so many more things that I've taken into account after my reading.

While I still tend to overuse commas, and sometimes forget there are other types of punctuation, I am beginning to judge my work more and more, and apply semi-colons, colons, quotations, and the various other marks we learned about in Lukeman's book.

Lukeman really made me see what my style with punctuation was, and how my work could be greatly improved by using the marks he explained very clearly in his book.