The Canadian Style: A Guide to Writing and EditingDundurn, 1997 - 311 páginas The revised edition of The Canadian Style is an indispensable language guide for editors, copywriters, students, teachers, lawyers, journalists, secretaries and business people -- in fact, anyone writing in the English language in Canada today. It provides concise, up-to-date answers to a host of questions on abbreviations, hyphenation, spelling, the use of capital letters, punctuation and frequently misused or confused words. It deals with letter, memo and report formats, notes, indexes and bibliographies, and geographical names. It also gives techniques for writing clearly and concisely, editing documents and avoiding stereotyping in communications. There is even an appendix on how to present French words in an English text. |
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Chapter Five | 88 |
Chapter Ten | 192 |
Chapter Eleven | 204 |
Chapter Twelve | 218 |
Chapter Thirteen | 244 |
Chapter Fourteen | 252 |
Chapter Fifteen | 262 |
Chapter Sixteen | 272 |
Appendix | 289 |
Chapter Six | 104 |
Chapter Seven | 110 |
Chapter Eight | 146 |
Chapter Nine | 160 |
Selected bibliography | 294 |
Index | 300 |
Termium | 312 |
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The Canadian Style: A Guide to Writing and Editing Public Works and Government Services Canada Translation Bureau,Dundurn Press Limited Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |
Términos y frases comunes
abbreviations Aboriginal acronyms acronyms and initialisms adjectivally adjectives adverb Alan Knight alphabetized apostrophe Arabic numerals bibliography Canada Capitalize the names chapter clauses colon comma communications complimentary close dash date/time document elements ellipsis ellipsis points enclosed endnotes English ensure example exclamation mark Federal Identity Program footnotes French Gage Canadian Dictionary geographical names headings Hyphenate Hyphenate compound indent style indention indicate initial Introduction italicized italics language Manitoba material means memorandum Minister Note official name omitted Ontario organization paragraph parentheses period phrase plural preceded prefix preposition proper noun province publication punctuation question mark quotation marks reader reference revision Rivière Roman Roman numerals roman type scientific semicolon sentence separate short forms SI/metric space 1 space specific spelling square brackets subentries suffix symbols toponyms translation Treasury Board units usage verb Words ending writing written