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.

Introduction
Punctuation-Who Needs It?

1: Defining Some Really Basic Terms
2: Apostrophes
3: Colons
4: Commas
5: Dashes
6: En Dashes
7: Exclamation Points!!!!
8: However: How to Get the Punctuation Right Every Time
9: Hyphens
10: Parentheses and Square Brackets
11: Periods
12: Ellipses
13: Abbreviations, Contractions, Numbers, and Dates
14: "The Angry, Aggressive Period"
15: Question Marks
16: Quotation Marks
17: Quotes within Quotes
18: Run-on Sentences
19: Semicolons
20: Starting Sentences with And or But