Need Help with Smushes (or Comma Splices)?

Here's a great site for help with all kinds of issues with writing--commas and just about everything else. It's called OWL--the online writing lab--and it is based at Purdue University. These are good basic recommendations for college writing. Everything you want to know and more.

Here's the comma page from OWL that we will look at in class.

And here's Grammar Bytes. (The Chomp Chomp site.)

Disclosure: Smush is a kind of made-up word (from the verb smush) which is descriptive but may not be found in handbooks. Handbooks will call these commas splices.