Punctuation

This week I have come to the realization of how much I do not know when it comes to proper punctuation.  I think that we, as a community, have altered our language for various forms of writing. Whether it is texting or your favorite social media, we tend to forget the fundamentals.  It becomes all too easy to forget when to correctly use a comma, semicolon, or quotation marks.  I have learned that I have very little knowledge of what I am doing with a comma.  I think that not using the comma properly is fairly common.  Whenever I have written a paper for a class I have lived under the assumption that less is more with the comma. Personally, it is much more noticeable that you don’t know what you are doing when your paper is littered with them.  I am glad to have read chapter 8 on punctuation. However, I feel as though I will be checking back on it on a very regular basis; I am not as familiar with it as I once thought I was.

                I actually don’t have a punctuation error that I have encountered in the wild this week.  I would really rather not make up some story of one just to fulfill the assignment, so I will give an example of a spelling mistake instead. I work in a hands-on environment, and proper grammar isn’t something that a lot of the guys at work tend to worry about.  However, if you are going to be making signs for any future company please at least use spell check or reread your own work.  I had the joyous experience of telling one of my managers that, “Parts Cadge” just seemed a little off.   I had to try as nicely as possible to tell him the proper spelling of the word was cage.