This research study examines the forensic application of stylistic techniques in the analysis of variations in the formation of punctuation marks and to determine whether these variations could be the basis of individualisation or not. Two hundred participants from above matric level qualification backgrounds, each submitted 888 words of text authored by the researcher. The texts were analysed in terms of the presence and formation of punctuation marks given in the text.

Keywords: Punctuation Marks Formation; Forensic Stylistics; Qualitative Analysis.