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Scholastically Sexy: The Semi-colon

1/2/2018

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Within the deep, scholarly recesses of their hearts, college students dream of using the semi-colon.  

When coming across one in a text, their hearts skip a beat.  They yearn to steal it off the page and paste it into their essays to call it their own.  They know, after all, that using a semi-colon is the epitome of suaveness, sophistication, and literal sexiness.  

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    Tess M. Brandt currently teaches English reading, composition, and literature courses at Diablo Valley and Ohlone Community Colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

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