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Brannan: A Writer's Workshop
A Writer's Workshop: Crafting Paragraphs, Building Essays
Bob Brannan, Johnson County Community College
Run-Ons, Comma Splices, and Sentence Fragments

Writing On and Offline



Take a look at this passage from James Joyce's Ulysses.



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What's going on here? Why do you think he's using all these run-on sentences? What would one lose by "correcting" them? Is this style appropriate to a typical college essay?

For additional help with identifying and avoiding run-ons, visit The Purdue University Writing Lab.



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Take notes during your visit.








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