I just read the New Yorker article about Truss's book. The punctuation
errors in the book that the reviewer pointed out were very similar to my
students' common errors.

Christine Martin


>From: Don Stewart <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: New Yorker article
>Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:25:05 -0400
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>It starts off about Truss's "Bad Comma," but then turns into some good
>writing about writing. Worth a look.
>
>http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?040628crbo_books1
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