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Dillon, George L. – College English, 1988
Considers the conventions of quotation marks--or "perverted commas"--and identifies seven uses, including shudder quotes (slang or inappropriate words) and scare quotes (used for attention or emphasis). Notes that quotation marks influence meaning and that finding a personal voice entails using language without quotes. (MM)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Plagiarism, Punctuation
Waller, Robert – 1980
The three papers included in this report address typography for graphic communication, typographic access structures for educational texts, and typography as macropunctuation. The first paper considers the consequences of an aesthetic bias in the literature of typography, and identifies two misleading assumptions about textbooks; i.e., that print…
Descriptors: Design Requirements, Graphic Arts, Language Research, Layout (Publications)