If you use the wrong one, you can always claim it was a typo. | Dominique James/iStock via Getty Images Plus Despite what its name suggests, a semicolon isn’t exactly just half a colon—it has its own ...

The colon is probably more useful to you in writing compositions, Chan, as the colon symbol : is used before an explanation about something or to introduce a list. Note these examples below: As a ...

Are you afraid of semicolons? How about colons? I once knew someone who would not say the word "colon" when talking about punctuation because, in her mind, it conjured up images of human posterior ...

For writers at work, punctuation can slip from a matter of convention to one of obsession. I just finished my poetry thesis last week, and I’m embarrassed to admit the number of times I changed ...

If you use the wrong one, you can always claim it was a typo. | Dominique James/iStock via Getty Images Plus Despite what its name suggests, a semicolon isn’t exactly just half a colon—it has its own ...