Below I will be discussing three punctuation topics and how they are applied to my own paper.
1. Use a comma before a coordinating conjunction joining independent clauses.
The main purpose, as stated above clearly, is to combine to clauses to create a more coherent clause and defined subject. This is not a new subject to me personally, but I still do skip over it sometimes as many others do as well.
Within my essay, there were not many situations where I had misused this conjunction. However, it was good to be able to go back and make sure that I had been aware to combine all the independent clauses I had.
2. Use punctuation with quotation marks according to convention.
In my essay, I provide a lot of quotes. Thus, this rule comes to play many times over. When reviewing my essay, I did notice that I had missed this a couple of times. It was very important to go back and catch the punctuation mistakes so that I could keep a clean and well punctuated paper.
3. Do not use commas to set off restrictive or mildly parenthetical elements.
The use of this punctuation function is to keep away from creating restrictive elements or modifiers, They are essential to the sentence, so by cutting them off with commas you are taking away their use.
In my own essay, I did not run into this issue many times. My own modifiers were not a massive issue overall in my essay.
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