Sister Dolores was a most persnickety teacher. I had her in the eighth grade at St. Frances of Rome. I kid you not; she was the reincarnation of Baron Von Steuben. If you’ve been to Valley Forge ...

Punching home the art of punctuation. Phil Beadle 25 July 2007 • 12:05am . Full stops, commas, apostrophes - they can be hard for children to grasp. ... Punctuation is not taught well in schools.

To find out how punctuation was invented in the first place, I spoke with Keith Houston, a Scottish software engineer and author of “Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols ...

In these days of email, tweets, and text messages, the application of proper punctuation is sometimes viewed as a dying art. Yet as archaic as that practice may sometimes seem, it remains true ...

Designs that challenge traditional camping, modern survival guides in a fire-powered rock, the digitization of medicine, a punctured eardrum simulator and punctuation art.