Writing Lab: Punctuation Saves Lives (Grammar Girl)

If you don't believe in the importance of punctuation in writing, give a look at this image:

Let's say you want to become a master in the fine art of using commas. A good website for this and other grammar tips is:

Grammar Girl: http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/

Here's a collection of articles on commas:

• The Oxford Comma, in Pictures
• Where Do I Use Commas?
• Dashes, Colons, and Commas
• Dear Comma

Here's a short story about the importance of commas and punctuation:

A professor wrote the following sentence on the board and asked his class to punctuate it:

Woman without her man is nothing.

Half of the class punctuated the sentence in the following way:

Woman: without her, man is nothing.

The other half of the class responded with the following:

Woman, without her man, is nothing.