Reluctantly Using the Oxford Comma in Grad School

I am having to get used to using the Oxford comma while writing. It is not an easy transition for someone reared on the Associated Press Stylebook. The Oxford, aka the serial comma, is the last comma in a list — as in red, white, and blue. See that last comma? Those of us taught to consider the AP Stylebook as the Bible of writing always leave it out. That is the style dictated in the punctuation guide of the venerable handbook, which turns 70 this year. It is two years older than me. Now I am enrolled in two online graduate courses in the University of North Texas College of Information,...

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