The Quotable Guide to Punctuation

Stephen Spector is professor of English and former department chair at SUNY Stony Brook University. He has published eight books, dealing mainly with religion, politics, and language. He has received numerous prizes, fellowships, and grants, has been a Visiting Scholar at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and has held research fellowship appointments at the National Humanities Center and Wesleyan University.

• IntroductionPunctuation-Who Needs It? 1: Defining Some Really Basic Terms2: Apostrophes3: Colons4: Commas5: Dashes6: En Dashes7: Exclamation Points!!!!8: However: How to Get the Punctuation Right Every Time9: Hyphens10: Parentheses and Square Brackets11: Periods 12: Ellipses 13: Abbreviations, Contractions, Numbers, and Dates 14: "The Angry, Aggressive Period"15: Question Marks16: Quotation Marks17: Quotes within Quotes18: Run-on Sentences19: Semicolons20: Starting Sentences with And or But

This volume offers a light and highly practical guide to punctuation for non-experts, that can possibly work well for the intended audience in the light of its witty, accessible style and abundance of interesting examples.