The reason the author wrote this article was because of a book her friend asked her to read.
Mignon Fogarty explains that a splice/fault of a comma is when someone joins two independent clause with a comma with no conjunction. Thus the whole sentences will be missing just a conjunction such as "but", "and", etc. The comma is being used to splice the two clauses together, thus a comma "splice". It's easy too fix the problem. Her simple solution is to place a period where the comma is and make two different sentences. The "splicing" of a sentence is usually done by a semicolon. If the sentences are closely related, one might explain the other, then a semicolon is suggested. However if the sentences are not closely related one should add a conjunction. Lastly, she writes that sometimes authors use splices to make their writings how they want.
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