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University of Chicago Manual of Style
Using Citation Machine to Credit Information for your Non-Fiction Manuscript
by, Claire Webber
May 28, 2013
Using Citation Machine for Citations in Non-Fiction Manuscripts - Project Gutenberg Image

You may think you left citations behind when you finished writing college papers, but if you are writing non-fiction these little footprints of authority are more important than ever. In school, your references to others’ work is a matter of intellectual honesty and under Fair Use of the Copyright Act, attribution of the source is sufficient. When you are writing a book that will be… [Read More]

Filed Under: APA, Bibliography, CitationMachine.net, citations, citing sources in non-fiction, endnotes, footnotes, MLA, references, Turabian, University of Chicago Manual of Style
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The use of exclamation points and caps flag authors as amateurs
by, Jill Swenson
August 21, 2012

Flagrant misuse of grammar rules hurts a writer’s chances for publication. Agents and editors take one quick glance and form a strong first professional impression. Don’t send up red flags and get rejected by your amateur abuse of punctuation or capitalization rules. Your email query may never be opened if you put the subject line of your message in all caps. WHEN YOU ARE USING… [Read More]

Filed Under: agents, CAPS, captalization, computer code, Elements of Style, email protocol, Publishers, Punctuation, spam, Strunk & White, University of Chicago Manual of Style
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