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Preface vii

Chapter 1

Punctuation 1

Chapter 2

Capitals,Italics,and Quotation Marks

Chapter 3

Plurals,Possessives,and Compounds

Chapter 4

Abbreviations

Chapter 5

The Treatment of Numbers

Chapter 6

Composition and Grammar

Chapter 7

Notes and Bibliographies

Chapter 8

The Treatment of Quotations

Chapter 9

Copyediting and Proofreading

Index

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