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How to use exclamation marks!
The punctuation collection Episode 45 • 22nd April 2020 • The Editing Podcast • Louise Harnby (fiction editor) and Denise Cowle (non-fiction editor)
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Denise and Louise discuss how to use exclamation marks.

Listen To Find Out More About:

  • What exclamation marks look like
  • Functions: Surprise, emphasis, volume
  • How many to use
  • Social media use
  • Reasons to omit them: web, business academic copy
  • Balancing use and abuse

Editing bites

  • How to Fix Your Damn Book, by James Osiris Baldwin, CreateSpace, 2016
  • Purdue OWL https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html

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‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.

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