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The use of exclamation points and caps flag authors as amateurs
by, Jill Swenson
August 21, 2012

Flagrant misuse of grammar rules hurts a writer’s chances for publication. Agents and editors take one quick glance and form a strong first professional impression. Don’t send up red flags and get rejected by your amateur abuse of punctuation or capitalization rules. Your email query may never be opened if you put the subject line of your message in all caps. WHEN YOU ARE USING… [Read More]

Filed Under: agents, CAPS, captalization, computer code, Elements of Style, email protocol, Publishers, Punctuation, spam, Strunk & White, University of Chicago Manual of Style
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