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Punctuation is a fundamental skill. Anyone reading this book is familiar with the functions of spaces, commas, stops, and capital letters. This chapter concerns stylistic issues of punctuation and errors that are common in science writing.
Taste and common sense are more important than any rules; you put in stops to help your readers to understand you, not to please grammarians.
Ernest Gowers
The Complete Plain Words
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This book is a text, not a technical contribution, and I’ve used contractions without shame.
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There is a hyphen missing in the headline “Squad helps dog bite victim”.
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Zobel, J. (2014). Punctuation. In: Writing for Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6639-9_8
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