Re: Periods and bullets

[quills -at- airmail -dot- net]

For single word lists, no period, period. And I would make the intro 
sentence for the list a complete sentence that ended with a period.

The crate contained various fruit. Or the sentence end with a colon.

For sentence fragments, very possibly. It can be covered by your company 
style guide.

Scott

John Posada wrote:
> Hi, guys...I'm having a discussion with another writer.
>
> My position is that a bullet list of gragments gets no period:
>
> The crate had
>   - oranges
>   - apples
>   - lemons
>
> and her position is that the last bullet gets a period.
>
> The crate had
>   - oranges
>   - apples
>   - lemons.
>
> Any validity to this?
>
>   

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