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Punctuation matters : advice on punctuation for scientific and technical writing / John Kirkman

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2006Edition: 4th edDescription: xii, 145 pISBN:
  • 9780415399821 (pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.0666 K6358
Contents:
Part 1: Policy 1. Difficulties Caused by Lack of Punctuation 2. The Jobs Done by Punctuation Marks 3. The Relation of Punctuation to Intonation and Stress 4. Is 'Open' or 'Light' Punctuation Enough? 5. How Punctuation Helps Reading 6. Reducing Uncertainty by Punctuating Carefully 7. Absence of Punctuation May Damage Your Credibility 8. Redundancy as Helpful Reinforcement 9. The Lazy Writer's Evasion of Responsibility Part 2: Guidelines 1. Apostrophe 2. Capital Letters 3. Colon 4. Comma 5. Dash (em rule and en rule) 6. Ellipsis Points 7. Exclamation Mark 8. Full Stop 9. Hyphen 10. Inverted Commas (or Quotation Marks) 11. Parentheses (or Brackets) 12. Question Mark 13. Semi-Colon 14. Slash 15. Underlining 16. Variations in Printing: Bold Type and Italic Type Part 3: Appendices Appendix 1: Paragraphing Appendix 2: Word-Division Appendix 3: Differences in punctuation in American English and British English
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Includes index & bibliography

Part 1: Policy 1. Difficulties Caused by Lack of Punctuation 2. The Jobs Done by Punctuation Marks 3. The Relation of Punctuation to Intonation and Stress 4. Is 'Open' or 'Light' Punctuation Enough? 5. How Punctuation Helps Reading 6. Reducing Uncertainty by Punctuating Carefully 7. Absence of Punctuation May Damage Your Credibility 8. Redundancy as Helpful Reinforcement 9. The Lazy Writer's Evasion of Responsibility Part 2: Guidelines 1. Apostrophe 2. Capital Letters 3. Colon 4. Comma 5. Dash (em rule and en rule) 6. Ellipsis Points 7. Exclamation Mark 8. Full Stop 9. Hyphen 10. Inverted Commas (or Quotation Marks) 11. Parentheses (or Brackets) 12. Question Mark 13. Semi-Colon 14. Slash 15. Underlining 16. Variations in Printing: Bold Type and Italic Type Part 3: Appendices Appendix 1: Paragraphing Appendix 2: Word-Division Appendix 3: Differences in punctuation in American English and British English

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