The Semicolon is Efficient
/The semicolon is efficient: it allows you to eliminate most of those conjunctions or prepositions that are obligatory with the comma—words like whereas, because, for, or, but, while, and.
JOHN TRIMBLE
Advice to Writers
ADVICE TO WRITERS
About ATW
Writerly wisdom of the ages collected by the author of Advice To Writers, The Big Book of Irony, and The Portable Curmudgeon.