Punctuation Matters: Advice on Punctuation for Scientific and Technical Writing

ISBN-13: 9780415399821 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 144 str.

John Kirkman

Opis

Gives answers to the queries raised by practitioners in computing, engineering, medicine and science as they grapple with day-to-day tasks in writing and editing. This work states a policy for clear and reliable punctuation; gives a series of alphabetically arranged guidelines; and contains appendices on paragraphing, word-division; and more.

Recenzje

"…it sets out in readable and clear prose all the basics and many of the subtleties of punctuation that science and technical writers need to know." -- Karen Lane, Technical Communication, Vol. 55, Number 1, February 2008

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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