Susan Pierotti, Creative Text Solutions People don’t use what they haven’t been taught to use. Chances are that your teacher didn’t give you good guidance on how to apply punctuation. Don’t blame your teachers – they probably weren’t taught either! Correct punctuation and spelling have been un-PC for a few decades now. So why do […]

Susan Pierotti, Creative Text Solutions Anyone who trawls editing chat sites, LinkedIn grammar groups and so on knows how the pulses race, the pupils widen and the mouths begin to froth when the subject of ‘bad’ punctuation turns up. Editors and writers galore feel the need to vent their spleens over incorrect usage of semicolons, […]