Re: punctuating the end of bullet points

Subject: Re: punctuating the end of bullet points
From: Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 17:21:18 -0400

Fred Ridder wrote:

Bullet items that are written as sentences (noun and verb) start
with a capital letter and end with a period. Bullet items that are
sentence fragments (typically lacking a verb) start with a
lower-case letter and have no terminating punctuation.



Umm, no. Those a choices made in a style guide. You may choose a style that starts fragment bullets with a lowercase letter, and others may choose a style that caps them. Similarly, you may choose to end fragment bullets with no terminal punctuation while another may choose to punctuate a list as if it were a sentence that just happens to have bullets interjected, with semicolons after every item but the last and a period after the last.

There is no one best way other than to follow the general rules of parallelism and consistency.

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