Kiwi's List of Writing Expertise

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tilkinsc's List of Writing Expertise

Punctuation comes too late and may depend on context clues.
	When reading, it can be against reading comprehension and against reading speed to read
	punctuation at the end of a sentence. For example, a simple sentence who claims a subject
	as or like an adjective can be easily misread not accounting for the tone a sentence has between punctuations.
	
	While searching in the woods, you found a goregous set of roses. Declaritive.
	While searching in the woods, you found a goregous set of roses? Interrogative.
	While searching in the woods, you found a goregous set of roses! Exclamatory.
	
	The first sample sentence would be used to remind a person of a previous action. The second
	sample sentence would be used to verify the validity of a previous action. The third sample
	sentence would be used to show excitement of a previous action. The downfall is not the
	punctuation, but the placement of the punctuation.
	
	.While searching in the woods, you found a goregous set of roses
	?While searching in the woods, you found a goregous set of roses
	!While searching in the woods, you found a goregous set of roses
	
	The three sample sentences have prepended the punction as opposed to the normal postfix. The
	three sample sentences are also split correctly when they are strung together in a paragraph.
	
	.While searching in the woods, you found a goregous set of roses ?While searching in the
	woods, you found a goregous set of roses !While searching in the woods, you found a goregous
	set of roses
	
	The advantage of prefixing sentences with the punctuations is the reader gets an immediate
	understanding of the tone the sentence should be read before they start reading it. At the
	end they do not need to contemplate how the sentence should of been read.
	
	Spanish has a benefit over English when using adjectives. The adjectives come after the noun
	to set up what the noun should look like. The process would be envisioning the noun then
	applying the adjectives to it. Although, because of tuning, English can get by perfectly fine
	putting adjectives before the noun. Another benefit they have is using two punctuations per
	sentence, due to the benefit of knowing at all times what the tense is.
	
	In the case of punctuation placement, it is better to know the tense before reading the
	sentence to understand it the first time. If the reader speaks the sentence to others, they
	can choose the tone before speaking. Teachers get by with a non-monitone flow and they pay
	attention to question words. They think before they speak. This is a skill that is learned
	and causes high schoolers who have trouble reading due to upbringing to sound funny when they
	read. It creates a sense of embarassment for reading slow, but also like a robot, which is
	also frowned upon. Prefixing sentences with punctuation will fix this.
	
	
Commas are hard.
	When reading, it can be against reading comprehension and against reading speed to use commas
	or any one symbol for many different purposes. For example, differentiating a series from a
	coordinating adjective from a introductory clause.
	
	Even though the kid had a fever, nasty cases of coughing, and a severe headache, he got out
	of bed, but he still went to the new, exciting school.
	
	The sentence starts out as a suspected introductory clause, turns immediately into a series,
	then resumes the introductory clause to have a coordinating adjective. The reader on the
	first read through the sentence may stumble on the start of the introductory clause where it
	turns into a series. They may also lose the context of the previous sentence or the paragraph
	entirely.
	
	Even though the kid had a fever, nasty cases of coughing were common in his family.
	Even though the kid had a fever, nasty cases of coughing, and a severe headache he got out of
	(his) bed.
	
	In the example sentences, it shows a possibility of what the reader could have in mind for
	how the sentence reads. Each one of these misreads could set the reader back to the start.
	They could not reliably say this sentence out loud.
	
	Even though the kid had a fever` nasty case of coughing` and a severe headache, he got out of
	bed; but he still went to the new, exciting school.
	The kid had a fever` nasty case of coughing` and a severe headache.
	
	In the example sentence, the series exchanged the comma for a backtick. The example sentence
	also changed using commas for FANBOYS into a semicolon. While the backtick symbol may be
	confused for an apostrophe in hand writing, it still can be differentiated successfully. A
	comma whose tail points in the opposite direction could also be used. The semicolon is always
	confused between writers, as they use it without knowing a semicolon is used to seperate two
	independent clauses without knowing what an independent clause means. A semicolon and a comma
	also can go hand in hand in terms of being used for seperating two sentences to be combined
	into a single thought.
	
	In the case of replacing lists with a backtick or an inverted comma, the reader can get the
	gist immediately over tripping over which type of comma they are looking at the first time.
	In the case of using a semicolon, writers and readers can get the gist immediately over
	tripping over which type of comma they are looking at the first time.
	
	A further step to improve reading comprehension would be to prepend a introductory clause
	with a symbol to indicate an introductory clause, and to expect the comma. A different step
	to take the same goal would be to use the russian double greater than symbol, which is used
	to encapsolate a part of the sentence.
	


Togetherness:
	.Even though the kid had a fever` nasty cases of coughing` and a severe headache, he got out
	of bed; but he still went to the new, exciting school
	
	.>Even though the kid had a fever` nasty cases of coughing` and a severe headache, he got out
	of bed; but he still went to the new, exciting school
	
	.>>Even though the kid had a fever` nasty cases of coughing` and a severe headache<< he got
	out of bed; but he still went to the new, exciting school
	

Reference:
	- https://webapps.towson.edu/ows/modulecomma.htm