The Merriam-Webster Concise Handbook for WritersThis essential writer's tool can guide you from rough draft to finished work with its clear explanations of the conventions and techniques for using punctuation, capitalizing words, forming plurals and possessives, preparing footnotes and bibliographies, copyediting, proofreading, and more. |
Contents
Chapter | 6 |
Capitals Italics and Quotation Marks | 53 |
Chapter 3 | 78 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
abbreviations academic degrees adding an apostrophe adjectives adverbs base on balls beginning bibliography binomial nomenclature brackets chapter close colon comma compositor conjunction coordinating conjunction copy dash delete described dictionary ellipsis points enclosed in quotation endnotes entry example exclamation point footnotes formed by adding galley galley proofs hyphenated indented indicate inserted italic type italicized italics letters lowercased main clauses manuscript margin Marks of Punctuation Merriam-Webster modify NOTE noun compounds omission omitted paragraph parenthetical references period placed possessive form precedes prefix preposition pronouns proofreader proper names proper nouns question mark quotation marks quoted material reader roman Roman numerals running text semicolon sentence separate serial comma singular sometimes space follows specific spelled style sheet Style varies regarding styled solid suffix symbol temporary compounds tence tion typeset typeset material units usually styled verb virgule word or phrase writers and editors written