TAILIEUCHUNG - Grammar, Punctuation, and Capitalization

All writing begins with ideas that relate to one another. An author chooses words that express the ideas and chooses an arrangement of the words (syntax) that expresses the relationships between the ideas. Given this arrangement of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences, the author obeys grammar and punctuation rules to form a series of sentences that will impart the ideas. | NASA SP-7084 Grammar Punctuation and Capitalization A Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors Mary K. McCaskill Langley Research Center Hampton Virginia PDF created Mon Aug 3 1998 - 11 47 AM Preface Page iii Preface The four chapters making up this reference publication were originally written as part of an ongoing effort to write a style manual for the Technical Editing Branch of the NASA Langley Research Center. These chapters were written for technical publishing professionals primarily technical editors at Langley. At the urging of my branch head I am making this part of the style manual available to the technical publishing community. This publication is directed toward professional writers editors and proofreaders. Those whose profession lies in other areas for example research or management but who have occasion to write or review others writing will also find this information useful. By carefully studying the examples and revisions to these examples you can discern most of the techniques in my editing bag of tricks I hope that you editors will find these of particular interest. Being a technical editor I drew nearly all the examples from the documents written by Langley s research staff. I admit that these examples are highly technical and therefore harder to understand but technical editors and other technical publishing professionals must understand grammar punctuation and capitalization in the context in which they work. In writing these chapters I came to a realization that has slowly been dawning on me during my 15 years as a technical editor authorities differ on many rules of grammar punctuation and capitalization these rules are constantly changing as is our whole language and these rules when they can be definitely ascertained sometimes should be broken Thus much of writing and editing is a matter of style or preference. Some of the information in this publication particularly the chapter on capitalization is a matter of style. Langley s .

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