I am a fairly laid-back person, but when it comes to the debate over the Oxford comma, I can get riled up! It’s so true; I can go from Ariel to Ursula in a matter of seconds when defending it! Unlike Ursula, I don’t want to take the writer’s “voice” away, but I do want to make sure students learn about proper punctuation and why things like the Oxford comma matter!

The Oxford comma (also known as the serial comma) is the comma used