John Kirkman

Punctuation Matters (eBook, PDF)

Advice on Punctuation for Scientific and Technical Writing

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The indispensable guide to all points of punctuation and presentation for computing, engineering, medical and scientific writers who need to express complex ideas succinctly and accurately.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134148028
• Artikelnr.: 42981505

Autorenporträt

John Kirkman is a communications specialist who runs his own consultancy specialising in technical and scientific writing.

Inhaltsangabe

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