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Whether itβs the Manual that peers down from your bookshelf, or Strunk and White, or the APA style guide, or Fowler, or Lynne Truss, itβs fair to ask why we consider these books authoritative, and if there might not be some better way to assess our writing than through their dicta.
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Cecelia Watson (Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark)