Activity 1: Analyzing Commas in Context Directions: This activity will help familiarize you with professional writers'
comma use. Visit any or all of the following sites and locate an essay that
interests you The
New York Times Magazine The Atlantic Monthly Harper's Salon Magazine New Scientist The
Smithsonian Examine your essay paying special attention to comma use. How does the writer
you've chosen use commas? Does the writer use them differently than you
tend to? Does the writer use more commas than you tend to, or fewer?
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