By June Casagrande

This all-in-one reference is a short and straightforward approach for booklet, journal, on-line, educational, and company writers to seem up sticky punctuation questions for all types together with AP (Associated Press), MLA (Modern Language Association), APA (American mental Association), and Chicago handbook of Style.

Punctuate with Confidence—No topic the Style

Confused approximately punctuation? There’s a cause. in all places you switch, courses appear to stick to diversified ideas on every thing from possessive apostrophes to hyphens to serial commas. Then there are all of the grey parts of punctuation—situations the rule of thumb books gloss over or by no means point out in any respect. ultimately, support has arrived.

This all-in-one reference from grammar columnist June Casagrande covers the fundamental ideas of punctuation plus the finer issues no longer addressed anyplace else, delivering transparent solutions to difficult questions on semicolons, citation marks, classes, apostrophes, and extra. greater but, this can be the single advisor that makes use of convenient icons to teach how punctuation ideas fluctuate for publication, information, educational, and technological know-how styles—so you could boldly swap among essays, on-line newsletters, studies, fiction, and journal and information articles.

Style courses don’t conceal every thing, yet by no means worry! This guide good points rulings from a professional “Punctuation Panel” so that you can see how operating professionals process sticky occasions. And the second one 1/2 the e-book beneficial properties an alphabetical grasp record of ordinarily punctuated phrases worthy its weight in gold, combining rulings from the foremost sort publications and displaying precisely the place they vary. With The top Punctuation publication, Period, you’ll have the ability to deal with any punctuation situation in a flash—and with aplomb.

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Bentley, M. (2004). ” Academic Exchange Quarterly, 8(3), 152–157. Brown, C. L. (2005). ” Academic Exchange Quarterly. com/p/ articles/mi_hb3325/is_4_9/ai_n29236331 Calderon, M. E. (2007). Teaching reading to English language learners, grades 6–12: A framework for improving achievement in the content areas. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin. Calderon, M. , & Minyana-Rowe, L. (2011). Preventing long-term English language learners: Transforming schools to meet core standards. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

At the beginning stages of second-language acquisition, students are often “stuck in the middle ground of being conversational in English, but lacking in the breadth of English needed for content area success” (Ogle & Correa-Kovtun, 2010). These concerns are well documented in the professional literature as challenges for schools across this country (August, Carlo, Dressler, & Snow, 2005; Fitzgerald, Amendum, & Guthrie, 2008; Lesaux & Geva, 2006; Mora, 2009). Spoken language is an area of competence in its own right, to be fostered alongside other aspects of the language curriculum (Stierer & Maybin, 1994).

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