Style is one of the hardest concepts to teach students. The idea of playing with sentences and experimenting with style is foreign to so many students – and teachers I dare say. I’m amazed at how many students who live their lives determined to either get around rules or flat out break them yet are terrified of moving a comma or writing a thesis that does not look like a chicken finger (seriously – one of my seniors said this to me last week) because they may lose points and get a bad grade. Oh grades – the bane of my existence. But I digress. Rules are made to be broken as long as students understand the purpose and effect of punctuation. When students understand that punctuation can be used to group words for clarity, speed up or slow down the reader, or contribute to the meaning of the text, they will be equipped as writers to ... KEEP READING
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