Manuscript Form and Punctuation writing

agraph writing: indent the first line of every paragraph, leaving a space of about 45letters; 5) Page writing: Arabic numerals without parentheses or periods in the down righthand corner of all pages; 6) Punctuation writing : i:Do not begin with punctuation; ii:Do not end a line with the first half of a pair of brackets, quotation marks or parentheses; iii:The hyphen is put at the end , not at the beginning of a line.
Manuscript Form and Punctuation
Produced by Ke Xianbing 2013-03-16
Lecture Two:
Introduction to Manuscript form
Whenever we write something, we should:
Have a clear idea of what is good manuscript from; Work carefully, write neatly and clearly, and try to make as few mistakes as possible; Proofread it once or twice before handing in our essay or exercise; Do everything ---write the title, leaving margins, indenting, capitalizing and dividing words; etc.
III. Capitalization:
Capitals are used mainly at three places: 1)the first words of sentences, 2) key words in titles, 3) and proper names.
IV. Punctuation:
There are a few basic rules which all students learning to write should remember: 1) Use a period (full stop) at the end of a complete sentence; 2) Do not use a comma to join two coordinate clauses instead, a comma and a conjunction, or a semicolon; 3) Make your commas different from your periods: , . ; : “” „‟ etc; 4)Use the exclamation mark only after an emphatic interjection or words that express very strong emotions;
V. Handwriting:
In order to make your handwriting easy to read, be sure to 1) make your capitals a little bigger and higher than your small lett ers, make you‟re a‟s different from your o‟s , and your n‟s different from your u‟s , do your I‟s and j‟s , and cross your t‟s ; 2)Leave a little space (about one letter)after a comma and a slightly bigger space(about two letters) after a period;
D: Avoid separating proper names; E:Divide hyphenated words only at the hyphen; F: Do not divide words in a way that may mislead the reader ; G: Do not divide the last word on a page; H: Divide words with prefixes or suffixes between affix and the base part of the word; I: Divide two syllable words with double consonants between the two consonants.
5) Put direct speech between quotation marks; Eg: She said, “We have decided to take the examination.” “We have decided to take the examination,” she said. “We have decided,” she said, “to take the examination.”
3) When you want to cross out a word, do not use brackets to enclose it, but draw a thick line across it; 4) Add a word, write it above, not below, the line of words you have written with a clear sign showing where it is to be inserted; 5)There are two common ways of writing the letters: one is to form loops and the other is to print (to write without jointing the lettrers. Both are good , but you had better stick to one of the two styles.
I. Arrangement(写作布局)
1) Write on every other line and write on only one side of the paper if it is thin, so as to make your handwriting easy to read and provide room for corrections; 2)Leave a margin on each side of the paper; 3) Title writing: i: In the middle of the first line; ii:Capitalize the first and last words of the title and iii: iii: all other words;No period is used at the end of a title; iv: Use quotation marks with quotes or
II. Word Division:
Never squeeze a word into the margin or the edge of the paper. The general principle of word division is: To divide a word according to its syllables. A: One syllable word can not be divided; B:Do not write one letter of a word at the end or at the beginning of a line , even if that one letter makes up a syllable; C: Do not put a two-letter syllable at the beginning of a line;