Punctuation matters : advice on punctuation for scientific and technical writing / John Kirkman.
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TextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006Edition: 4th edDescription: xii, 145 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415399814; 0415399823; 9780415399821Subject(s): Technical writing | PunctuationLOC classification: T11 | .K55 2006Other classification: 18.04 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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"First published as Full Marks 1989, 1993, 1999 by Ramsbury Books"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-139) and index.
pt. 1. Policy -- Difficulties caused by lack of punctuation -- The jobs done by punctuation marks -- The relation of punctuation to intonation and stress -- Is 'open' or 'light' punctuation enough? -- How punctuation helps reading -- Reducing uncertainty by punctuating carefully -- Absence of punctuation may damage your credibility -- Redundancy as helpful reinforcement -- The lazy writer's evasion of responsibility -- pt. 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 -- pt. 3. Appendices -- App. 1. Paragraphing -- App. 2. Word-division -- App. 3. Differences in punctuation in American English and British English.
:"A guide that lays out the rules of punctuation in an accessible 'dip-into' resource with a wide range of real examples from computing, engineering, medical and scientific contexts. This book also covers paragraphing, formatting lists, word division and how punctuation conventions differ between US and UK scientific and technical writing."--Provided by publisher.