[外语学习]Manuscript Form and Punctuation英语标点符号用法.ppt

Manuscript Form and Punctuation I. Manuscript Form 1. Arrangement 1) When we write an essay to be read by the teacher, we should write on every other line so that there will be room for corrections. It is necessary to leave a margin of about two centimeters at the top and the bottom of the page, and one of a centimeter and a half on the right and left side. 2) The title or topic of the essay should be placed in the middle of the first line. Every word of the title (including words following hyphens in compound words) should be capitalized, except articles, prepositions, coordinating conjunctions (and, or, but, nor, and for) and to in infinitives. But if one of these words is the first or last word of the title, it should be capitalized. Topics are generally noun phrases (nouns with their modifiers), though other forms are possible. No full stop should be used at the end of a title. A question mark is needed if the topic is a direct question (but an indirect question is not followed by a question mark). The title of a book within the topic should be underlined (italicized in printing), and the title of an article put between quotation marks. Below are some examples: My Impressions of Beijing The Wall Between Where Do All the New Words Come From? What Traditions Mean to the Chinese A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Different Views on Jane Eyre Interpretations of Robert Frost’s “Fire and Ice” 3)The first line of every paragraph should be indented (started after a space of four or five letters). 4) Arabic numerals are generally used for paging. They can be put either in the upper right-hand corner or in the middle below the last line of every page. 5) A line is never begun with a comma, a period, a semicolon, a colon, a question mark or an exclamation mark; a line never ends with the first half of a pair of brackets or quotation marks. The hyphen that sh