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1、NASASP-7084Grammar,Punctuation,andCapitalizationAHandbookforTechnicalWritersandEditorsMaryK.McCaskillLangleyResearchCenterHampton,VirginiaPDFcreated:Mon,Aug3,1998-11:47AMPrefacePageiiiPrefaceThefourchaptersmakingupthisreferencepublicationwereoriginallywrittenaspartofanongoingeffortto
2、writeastylemanualfortheTechnicalEditingBranchoftheNASALangleyResearchCenter.Thesechapterswerewrittenfortechnicalpublishingprofessionals(primarilytechnicaleditors)atLangley.Attheurgingofmybranchhead,Iammakingthispartofthestylemanualavailabletothetechnicalpublishingcommunity.Thispublic
3、ationisdirectedtowardprofessionalwriters,editors,andproofreaders.Thosewhoseprofessionliesinotherareas(forexample,researchormanagement),butwhohaveoccasiontowriteorreviewothers'writingwillalsofindthisinformationuseful.Bycarefullystudyingtheexamplesandrevisionstotheseexamples,youcandisc
4、ernmostofthetechniquesinmyediting"bagoftricks";Ihopethatyoueditorswillfindtheseofparticularinterest.Beingatechnicaleditor,IdrewnearlyalltheexamplesfromthedocumentswrittenbyLangley'sresearchstaff.Iadmitthattheseexamplesarehighlytechnicalandthereforehardertounderstand,buttechnicaledito
5、rsandothertechnicalpublishingprofessionalsmustunderstandgrammar,punctuation,andcapitalizationinthecontextinwhichtheywork.Inwritingthesechapters,Icametoarealizationthathasslowlybeendawningonmeduringmy15yearsasatechnicaleditor:authoritiesdifferonmanyrulesofgrammar,punctuation,andcapita
6、lization;theserulesareconstantlychanging(asisourwholelanguage);andtheserules(whentheycanbedefinitelyascertained)sometimesshouldbebroken!Thusmuchofwritingandeditingisamatterofstyle,orpreference.Someoftheinformationinthispublication,particularlythechapteroncapitalization,isamatterofsty
7、le.Langley'seditorialpreferencesarebeingpresentedwhenyouseethewordsweprefer,"we"beingLangley'seditorialstaff.IdonotintendtoimplythatLangley'sstyleispreferredoveranyother;however,ifyoudonothaveapreferredstyle,Langley'seditorialtraditionisalongandrespectedone.Iwishtoacknowledgethatedit
8、orialtraditi
