Monthly Archives: May 2006

Running on parentheticals

Posted on May 16, 2006 by Stuart Shieber

A common source of run-on sentences is the inclusion of a parenthetical full sentence at the end of another sentence, for instance, This is an example (there may be others). This construction is always wrong. Separate the two sentences, as … Continue reading →

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MS Word defects

Posted on May 16, 2006 by Stuart Shieber

Writers using MS Word tend to make certain standard errors in their typesetting. For instance, they use hyphens instead of em-dashes (ctrl-alt-hyphen or option-shift-hyphen). Mathematical typesetting is especially bad. There is essentially no way to typeset mathematics well in MS … Continue reading →

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