Better Punctuation in 30 Minutes a Day

By: Ceil Cleveland

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Paperback | 30 March 2005 | Edition Number 1

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To achieve your goals, words alone aren't enough. You need punctuation too!

Who cares about commas, semicolons, dashes, and hyphens? Well, you should. A misplaced punctuation mark can confuse physicians and surgeons, cause thousands of dollars in legal fees, misinform judges, puzzle bankers, misguide stockbrokers, and even ruin a recipe.

Luckily, you don't need a teacher with a mouthful of jargon to show you how to make yourself clearly understood, whether it's in a text or a term paper.Better Punctuation in 30 Minutes a Daylets you teach yourself. This small step-by-step handbook is an indispensable guide if you need to:

Compose high school or college papers
Apply to college or for a job
Write a resume
Communicate your thoughts to anyone, from your landlord to your loved one

You can work on your own, at your own speed, and within your own time frame-and the rules of punctuation, often confusing and hazy, will finally become clear.

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Introduction	p. 11
Commas	p. 19
Comma Problems/Common Problems	p. 19
Compound Sentences	p. 19
Trial Exercises	p. 20
Complex Sentences	p. 21
Trial Exercises	p. 21
Compound-Complex Sentences	p. 22
Trial Exercises	p. 23
Introductory Elements	p. 23
Trial Exercises	p. 24
Necessary Elements	p. 25
Apposotives	p. 27
Trial Exercises	p. 28
Parenthetical Comments	p. 29
Trial Exercises	p. 30
Items in a Series	p. 30
Trial Exercises	p. 31
Key to Trial Exercises	p. 32
Programmed Instruction	p. 35
Diagnostic Exercises	p. 35
Key to Diagnostic Exercises	p. 38
Review: Your Toolbox	p. 42
End Punctuation	p. 45
Periods	p. 45
Question Marks	p. 48
Exclamation Points	p. 49
Exercises	p. 51
Key to Exercises	p. 53
Semicolons and Colons	p. 57
Joining Independent Clauses or Sentences	p. 57
Making Transitions	p. 58
Linking Lists After a Colon	p. 60
Linking a Series	p. 61
Exercises	p. 62
Key to Exercises	p. 65
Colons	p. 71
Exercises	p. 74
Key to Exercises	p. 77
Apostrophes	p. 81
Contractions	p. 82
Possessives	p. 83
Plurals	p. 84
The Exceptional Apostrophe	p. 86
Exercises	p. 87
Key to Exercises	p. 96
Quotation Marks	p. 101
Direct Quotations	p. 101
Titles of Short Works	p. 103
Definitions and Words as Words	p. 104
Ironic Distance	p. 104
Block Quotations	p. 105
Quoting Poetry	p. 106
Big Don'ts	p. 107
Punctuation With Quotation Marks	p. 109
Single Quotation Marks	p. 110
Exercises	p. 111
Key to Exercises	p. 117
Hyphens and Dashes	p. 121
Hyphens	p. 121
Hyphenated Numbers	p. 123
Exercises	p. 125
Key to Exercises	p. 128
Dashes	p. 131
Exercises	p. 134
Key to Exercises	p. 137
Capitalization	p. 141
First Words	p. 141
Proper Names and Titles	p. 142
Adjectives Formed by Proper Nouns	p. 144
Geographic Regions	p. 144
Exercises	p. 145
Key to Exercises	p. 149
Abbreviations, Numbers, and Italics	p. 153
Proper Names	p. 153
Numbers	p. 155
Italics	p. 156
Exercises	p. 160
Key to Exercises	p. 163
Parentheses and Brackets	p. 167
Parentheses	p. 167
Brackets	p. 169
Exercises	p. 171
Key to Exercises	p. 176
Slashes and Ellipses	p. 183
Slashes	p. 183
Ellipses	p. 185
Exercises	p. 187
Key to Exercises	p. 206
Postscript	p. 211
Works Cited	p. 213
Works Consulted	p. 215
Index	p. 217
About the Author	p. 223
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