Author Archives: Lynn Gaertner-Johnston

In a recent Better Business Writing class, a participant asked me to post a blog on exclamation points, also known as exclamation marks. "They are everywhere!" she said. She's right! They are everywhere! And just as you are beginning to worry that my overuse of them here will… continue reading

Of all the punctuation errors I saw this year, the most prevalent offender was this one: Thanks Lynn.Happy holidays Lynn!Okay Lynn! Sorry to use my name so often, but the error involves direct address, that is, writers addressing the reader directly (in my case, Lynn).… continue reading

When it comes to punctuation, not all series are created equal. On a discussion board I participate in (as part of Marcia Yudkin’s Marketing for More program), this sentence came up in a discussion about commas: I dropped the pickle jar, it rolled across the… continue reading