Punctuation at work
Subtitle: simple principles for achieving clarity and good style
By: Richard Lauchman
Contributors: American Management Association
Publisher: American Management Association
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780814414941
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Punctuation can't rescue sense from nonsense; title: The main reason to punctuate is to clarify your intent; title: One of punctuation's tasks is to supply the various signals given by the voice; title: In workplace writing, a sentence should yield its meaning instantly; title: Punctuation should be invisible; title: Punctuation follows the arrangement of words; title: Punctuation indicates how ideas relate; title: Punctuation suggests how much emphasis an idea deserves; title: Punctuation slows the reading; title: Don't count too much on context to make your meaning plain; title: Know the difference between restrictive and non-restrictive expressions; title: Respect the distinction between that and which; title: When is punctuation optional?; title: Use the serial comma; title: When do I separate adjectives with a comma?; title: Use the hyphen to clarify "improvised usage"; title: Sometimes, no matter how you punctuate, a reader is going to think it's wrong; title: Feed your head; title: When you see an odd usage, consider the source; title: Apostrophe; title: Brackets; title: Colon; title: Comma; title: Dash; title: Ellipsis; title: Hyphen; title: Parentheses; title: Period; title: Question mark; title: Quotation marks; title: Semicolon; title: Slash; title: Punctuating common sentence structures.