Punctuation Matters
Subtitle: Advice on Punctuation for Scientific and Technical Writing
Series: Routledge Study Guides; Routledge Study Guides
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780203967089
Subjects: Technical writing; Punctuation
Description: 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.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Conventions used in this book; About the author; Part 1: Policy; Part 2: Guidelines; 1. Apostrophe ('); 2. Capital Letters; 3. Colon (:); 4. Comma (,); 5. Dash: em rule (; title: ) and en rule (; title: ); 6. Ellipsis Points (...); 7. Exclamation mark (!); 8. Full Stop (.); 9. Hyphen (; title: ); 10. Inverted Commas (or Quotation Marks): Single (' ') or Double (" "); 11. Parentheses (or Brackets) (); 12. Question Mark ; 13. Semi-Colon (;); 14. Slash (/); 15. Underlining (_).