Merriam-Webster's Guide to Punctuation and Style

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Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-01-01
Publisher(s): Merriam Webster
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Summary

Quick answers to questions about pronunciation, capitalization, plurals, and quotations. A guide to copyediting and proofreading. Special sections of word usage and grammar. Instructions for preparing notes and bibliographies.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Punctuation
1(53)
Apostrophe
2(1)
Brackets
3(3)
Colon
6(3)
Comma
9(15)
Dash
24(5)
Ellipsis Points
29(3)
Exclamation Point
32(2)
Hyphen
34(1)
Parentheses
35(5)
Period
40(1)
Question Mark
41(2)
Quotation Marks
43(6)
Semicolon
49(3)
Slash
52(2)
Capitals and Italics
54(32)
Beginnings
54(3)
Proper Nouns and Adjectives
57(24)
Other Styling Conventions
81(5)
Plurals, Possessives, and Compounds
86(30)
Plurals
86(8)
Possessives
94(4)
Compounds
98(18)
Abbreviations
116(17)
Punctuation
117(2)
Capitalization
119(1)
Plurals, Possessives, and Compounds
120(2)
Specific Styling Conventions
122(11)
Numbers
133(26)
Numbers as Words or Figures
133(6)
Punctuation
139(4)
Specific Styling Conventions
143(16)
Quotations
159(14)
Styling Block Quotations
160(3)
Alterations and Omissions
163(4)
Epigraphs and Blurbs
167(3)
Quoting Verse
170(3)
Notes and Bibliographies
173(52)
Footnotes and Endnotes
178(12)
Parenthetical References
190(5)
Other Systems
195(5)
Bibliographies
200(13)
Special Types of References
213(12)
Copyediting and Proofreading
225(118)
Overview
226(2)
The Manuscript
228(3)
Copyediting the Manuscript
231(40)
Proofs and Proofreading
271(21)
Appendixes
A. Word Usage
292(20)
B. Grammar Glossary
312(31)
Index 343

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