Susan Carlton
susanrc@bgnet.bgsu.edu

I hope to help students to become good rewriters rather than good writers. Fill those wastebaskets and virtual recycling bins! Tinker with those words till you feel that they (their, they’re, there???) are right. “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” So said Mark Twain (whom we remember fondly by the name he penned for himself rather than his given name). What is true for words is also true for commas. The same deadly lightning bolt applies to seemingly harmless punctuation marks as proved by this popular example:
A woman, without her man, is nothing.
A woman: without her, man is nothing.

Susan Carlton has a B.A. in English from BGSU, and a Masters Degree and Ph.D., also in English, from the University of Michigan.  Before joining the GSW Full-Time teaching staff in 2000 she was a lecturer at the University of Michigan where she taught writing for many years. 

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