Guides: Good Sentences: Punctuation

General

How to Punctuate
By Russell Baker, in How to Use the Power of the Printed Word (1985)
Bad Comma
By Louis Menand, The New Yorker (June 28, 2004)
In Ads, Punctuation Can Make a Point
by Deirdre Fernandes, Boston Globe (March 5, 2015)
The Wrong Way to Teach Grammar
by Michelle Navarre Cleary, The Atlantic Monthly (February 25, 2014)
When Your Punctuation Says It All (!)
by Jessica Bennett, The New York Times (February 27, 2015)
Writers' Favorite Punctuation Marks
by Jen Doll, The Atlantic (September 24, 2012)
Top Twenty Errors in Undergraduate Writing
By Hume Center for Writing and Speaking, Stanford University
The Phenomenology of Error
By Joseph M. Williams, College Composition and Communication (May, 1981)
I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why.
By Kyle Wiens, Harvard Business Review (July 20, 2012)

Commas
By Writing Center, University of North Carolina
Avoid the Most Common Comma Crimes Committed by Counsel
by Ross Guberman, Michigan Bar Journal, pp. 40-41 (March 2016)
Cheat Sheet
by Richard Lederer & John Shore, Comma Sense: A Fun-Damental Guide to Punctuation, pp. 127-40 (2005)
In Praise of the Humble Comma
By Pico Iyer, Time (June 24, 2001)
Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute
By Daniel Victor, The New York Times (March 16, 2017)
The Comma
By Richard Lederer & John Shore, Comma Sense: A FUNdamental Guide to Punctuation, pp. 25-40 (2005)
The Most Comma Mistakes
By Ben Yagoda, The New York Times (May 21, 2012)
The World's Top Grammarian Fears that This Punctuation Error is Becoming Standard English
By Daniel McMahon, Business Insider (May 2, 2016)
The Dreaded Comma Splice
By Johnson, The Economist (January 10, 2012)
Comma
by Brian Bilston, Brian Bilston's Poetry Laboetry (July 24, 2015)
Will We Use Commas in the Future?
By Matthew J.X. Malady, Slate (Jan. 28, 2014)

Apostrophe's Lament
by Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune (2012)
Apostrophe to the Apostrophe
By Eric Nelson, Poetry (June 2001).
It's just an apostrophe, people
By John E. McIntyre, The Baltimore Sun (March 22, 2013)
Being an Apostrophe
By Geoffrey Pullum, The Chronicle of Higher Education (March 22, 2013)
Apostrophes That Make You Go Hmmm
By Anne Curzan, The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 25, 2017)
How Apostrophes Came to Confuse Us
By Edwin L. Battistella, OURblog (May 7, 2017)

The Chicago Manual of Style by University of Chicago Staff (Editor)
Call Number: Available Online
Publication Date: 2010
A Dash of Style by Noah Lukeman
Call Number: Writing Reserve PE1450 .L85 2006
Publication Date: 2006

Hyphens Run Amok
By Phillip Corbett, The New York Times (May 12, 2015):
A Perfectly Nice, Well-Intentioned Rant About Hyphens
By Jen Doll, The Atlantic (November 27, 2012)
Jay-Z Joins To-Day and Ice-Cream in the Hyphen Graveyard
By Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic (July 18, 2013)
About Your Love Affair with the Hyphen
By Theda C. Snyder, attorneyatwork (January 11, 2017)

Mad Dash
By Ben Yagoda, The New York Times (October 22, 2012)
The Singular Beauty of the Em-Dash
by Jen Doll, in The Atlantic (October 23, 2012)
Dashing Through
By Anne Curzan, Dashing Through (May 16, 2016)

Study Confirms That Ending Your Text With a Period is Terrible
By Rachel Feltman, Washington Post (December 8, 2015)
The Period is Dead--But So What?
By Dante Ramos, Boston Globe (June 16, 2016)

Has Modern Life Killed the Semicolon?
By Paul Collins, Slate (June 20, 2008)
Semicolons: A Love Story
By Ben Dolnick, The New York Times (July 2, 2012)
Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location
By Sam Roberts, The New York Times (February 18, 2008)
The end of the line?
By Jon Henley, The Guardian (April 3, 2008)
Using Semicolons
by Writing Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
In Praise of the Semicolon
By Princeton Writes, Princeton University

How to Use the Colon: Understand its Usage Once and for All
By Merrill Perlman, from Columbia Journalism Review (November 24, 2014)
Colons
The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed., sections 6.59-6.65 [beginning with section 6.59: Use of the colon]
Colon
The Punctuation Guide
Chicago Style Workout 26: Colons
Chicago Manual

A Plea for Self-Control Regarding the Exclamation Point
By Rembert Browne, The Atlantic Monthly (September 24, 2012)
The Overuse of Exclamation Points!
By Christopher Muther, Boston Globe (April 26, 2012)
The Point of Exclamation
by Ben Yagoda, The New York Times (August 6, 2012)
Talking (Exclamation) Points
by Aimee Lee ball, The New York Times (July 1, 2011)
Appeal to the Grammarians (Poem)
By Paul Violi