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Book-Specific Resources / Links / Punctuation and Mechanics PUNCTUATION http://www.cyberlyber.com/punctuation.htm Lists PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, and Web pages about punctuation. EMOTICONS AND SMILEYS http://www.windweaver.com/emoticon.htm This list of emoticons is indexed by emotion: click on happy, trying to communicate, and so on. A LITTLE HELP WITH CAPITALS http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_caps.html A capitalization tutorial from the Purdue University Writing Lab. CAPITALIZATION http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/capitals.htm Includes guidelines on capitalization, a PowerPoint presentation, and an interactive quiz. USING ITALICS AND UNDERLINING http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/italics.htm Detailed examples on when to use italics and underlining in your writing. ITALICS/UNDERLINING VS. QUOTATION MARKS http://www.uvsc.edu/owl/handouts/quotes.html When you are finished reading this overview of when to use italics and quotation marks, take the Punctuation and Mechanics test. COMPUTER TIPS http://www.computertips.com This site exists to help you find answers to computer-use problems. If you have trouble using the automatic hyphenating function of your word processor, type in hyphenating in the site's search engine to get help. ONELOOK DICTIONARIES http://www.onelook.com/browse.shtml This collection of dictionaries includes several online acronym dictionaries with general interest, military, and Internet acronyms. This selection of links is based on the work of Nick Carbone, a well-known scholar of online discourse. |
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