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Punctuation at work : simple principles for achieving clarity and good style /
Proper punctuation isn't just for school teachers--it's for anyone in the workplace who wants to communicate professionally ... and clearly!
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
American Management Association,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Punctuation can't rescue sense from nonsense
- The main reason to punctuate is to clarify your intent
- One of punctuation's tasks is to supply the various signals given by the voice
- In workplace writing, a sentence should yield its meaning instantly
- Punctuation should be invisible
- Punctuation follows the arrangement of words
- Punctuation indicates how ideas relate
- Punctuation suggests how much emphasis an idea deserves
- Punctuation slows the reading
- Don't count too much on context to make your meaning plain
- Know the difference between restrictive and non-restrictive expressions
- Respect the distinction between that and which
- When is punctuation optional?
- Use the serial comma
- When do I separate adjectives with a comma?
- Use the hyphen to clarify "improvised usage"
- Sometimes, no matter how you punctuate, a reader is going to think it's wrong
- Feed your head
- When you see an odd usage, consider the source
- Apostrophe
- Brackets
- Colon
- Comma
- Dash
- Ellipsis
- Hyphen
- Parentheses
- Period
- Question mark
- Quotation marks
- Semicolon
- Slash
- Punctuating common sentence structures.