Re: Avoid the Semicolon in Tech Writing?

Subject: Re: Avoid the Semicolon in Tech Writing?
From: "nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il" <nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 07:55:21 -0400

> On the Windows desktop, click the Internet Explorer
> icon; the Internet Explorer screen appears.

Unlike your old instructor, I wouldn't recommend a
semicolon there. I think it is a fine place for a
full stop, to indicate that the first action finishes
and many leisurely nanoseconds go by before the second
action begins.

On the other hand, maybe that's why I'm not a
technical-writing instructor...

Mark L. Levinson
nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il


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