COMPUTER SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Elements of Technical Writing
2005-2006
Useful rules of punctuation: (from Elements of Technical Writing by Blake and Bly)
- Rule 1: Hyphenate two words compounded to form an adjective modifier
- Rule 2: Hyphenate two adjacent nouns if they are both necessary to express a single idea
- Rule 3: In a series of three or more terms with a single conjunction, use a comma after each except the last
- Rule 4: Omit the period at the end of a parenthetical expression within a sentence; retain it if the entire parenthetical expression stands alone as a sentence.