The use of Semicolon

 A semicolon is used to indicate the connectedness of two independent clauses.

We can go to library to write a research paper; the reading section is very quiet there.

Garima has gone to market; Ankit has gone to play cricket.

I work very hard for exams; studies have no short cut.

Remember, semicolons are not interchangeable with commas or periods. Instead, they’re somewhere in between: stronger than a comma but not quite as divisive as a period. 

You shouldn’t use a semicolon and a conjunction. That means when you use a semicolon, you use it instead of the ands, buts, and ors; you don’t need both.

Garima has gone to market, and Ankit has gone to play cricket.

You can use semicolons to divide the items of a list if the items are long or contain internal punctuation. 

I need the weather statistics for the following cities:  Punjab, Patiala;  Haryana, Karnal; Rajashthan, Churu

My plan included making footnotes of my research paper—though not necessarily comprehensive—one critical appreciation; writing the rough draft of the research paper, which, by the way, are essential to understand a piece of literay work with new perspectives.