Episode 45
How to use exclamation marks!
The Editing Podcast · Louise Harnby (fiction editor) and Denise Cowle (non-fiction editor)
April 22, 202012m 45s
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Show Notes
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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Denise And Louise
Music Credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.