Tips for taming run-on sentences
Dear Editor-on-call,
I'm weak when it comes to run-on sentences. Can you help?
Sincerely,
The On-Runner
Dear Runner,
You are in good company. Run-ons are one of the three most common errors I see in academic writing. PhD programs in English seem to encourage jamming as many ideas as possible between full stops. I once broke an 11-line sentence into FOUR parts. Clearly this was a case of reader distrust--an anxiety that the reader wouldn't comprehend the way ideas were linked unless crammed togethe...
I'm weak when it comes to run-on sentences. Can you help?
Sincerely,
The On-Runner
Dear Runner,
You are in good company. Run-ons are one of the three most common errors I see in academic writing. PhD programs in English seem to encourage jamming as many ideas as possible between full stops. I once broke an 11-line sentence into FOUR parts. Clearly this was a case of reader distrust--an anxiety that the reader wouldn't comprehend the way ideas were linked unless crammed togethe...
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