{"id":7918,"date":"2015-04-09T18:41:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T16:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/?p=7918"},"modified":"2023-07-19T11:49:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T09:49:20","slug":"punctuation-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/language-rules\/punctuation-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Punctuation in Academic Writing: Common Errors | Examples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Punctuation<\/strong> signals the structure of a text, telling us not only where one idea ends and another begins, but also which idea is more important and how it relates to other ideas. The wrong punctuation, then, signals the wrong relationship between ideas, confusing your reader.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>These pages outline some of the most important punctuation rules and common mistakes.\u00a0Punctuation misuse often causes or is caused by other kinds of mistakes, usually on the level of sentence structure.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Commas (,)\" href=index-3708.html>Commas (,)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=index-2681.html>Quotation marks (&#8220;&#8221;)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=index-3587.html>Apostrophes (&#8216;)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Semicolons (;)\" href=index-1830.html>Semicolons (;)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Colons (:)\" href=index-3565.html>Colons (:)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Dashes (\u2013 or \u2014)\" href=index-4055.html>Dashes (\u2013 and \u2014)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Parentheses ()\" href=index-1829.html>Parentheses ( )<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Question marks (?)\" href=index-4550.html>Question marks (?)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kb-textbox border-left green\"><figcaption>Tip<\/figcaption>Want to make your life easier? Check out <a href=index-4056.html>the punctuation checker<\/a> for immediate feedback!<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punctuation signals the structure of a text, telling us not only where one idea ends and another begins, but also which idea is more important and how it relates to other ideas. The wrong punctuation, then, signals the wrong relationship between ideas, confusing your reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"categories":[28634],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<title>Punctuation in Academic Writing: Common Errors | Examples<\/title>\n
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