Improve Your Punctuation and Style - Couverture souple

Wick, Kenneth A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798526152181

Editeur : Independently published, 2021

Synopsis

Do you worry about incorrect punctuation, capitalization, or number formatting in your writing?

• Should you delete the comma after capitalization in the above sentence? (Maybe I wrote it wrong on purpose.)
• Is it “girls softball team” or “girl’s softball team”?
• Which words should you capitalize in a title?
• When should you spell out a number?

In college, superior writing skills result in higher grades and a better chance of hearing “you’re hired” after graduation. A survey of employers showed 73 percent want to hire someone with strong writing skills.

At work, superior writing skills lead to success and career mobility. According to a 2019 Forbes article, a person’s writing ability is the “most important skill in business.” An effective writer moves up the career ladder while a weak writer is passed up and left behind by co-workers and competitors.

Because college courses and the global economy require top-notch writing skills, my book Improve Your English Writing focuses on the three factors of superior writing: clear, concise, and correct sentences.

This book is a portion of Improve Your English Writing and focuses on writing correct sentences through proper punctuation and style. Style refers to spelling, capitalization, number formatting, use of italics, and so on.

I created a separate book because authors with good writing skills still have questions concerning proper punctuation and style. Improve Your Punctuation and Style is a how-to manual of the most important and frequently used punctuation and style rules.

The rules in Improve Your Punctuation and Style are not my rules and guidelines. They are the rules from the most popular style guides:

• The Chicago Manual of Style for books
• The Associated Press Stylebook for newspapers
• The Gregg Reference Manual for business
• The MLA Handbook and APA manual for academic writing.

Important rule differences are noted when the style guides disagree, allowing a person to follow a specific style guide.

Because Improve Your Punctuation and Style cannot cover everything, it utilizes the Pareto Principle (80/20 rule). This means roughly 80 percent of proper punctuation and style come from 20 percent of the rules. Improve Your Punctuation and Style contains the rules that produce proper punctuation and style.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798526152181
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 88
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg