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Hi, In some of the first few pages of our textbook, Perry & Potter (2005) establish that "" src="/emoticons/emotion-45.gif">ursing is not simply a collection of specific skills, and the nurse is not simply a person trained to perform specific tasks. Nursing is a profession," the authors...

Sloppy work, Anon. Leave one space between words and study punctuation. Put your sentences into clear paragraphs.I hope you are well. Regarding Charles's old expenses (from April 2006 to March 2007) of £4067.08: I could not decide how to bill this. Do you want to see all the...

I am French, leaving in the US and need to prepare a CV and a letter of motivation for a position in the UK. In reading many posts on this (neat) forum, I noticed that there are many differences in the format of CVs for each country and I would like to make sure that what I read seems...

Anonymous wrote: Interesting you would take such a stand, when your signature quotation suggests otherwise. We're getting a little off-topic here, but when I am editing, my job is not just to correct out-and-out errors ("the man are") which are relatively rate, but also fix the wrong word...

Hi Bronwyn, If the sentence is truly a complete sentence, then leave the end punctuation inside the parentheses. When I write for fun, I often do have parenthetical sentences, and sometimes they will be questions, and sometimes exclamatory sentences. But I would seriously question the wisdom of...

I came across this post in searching for an answer to my similar question.Do I understand correctly that even if the entire sentence in parenthesis is the final sentence of a paragraph, page or chapter of a book, there is no need for additional punctuation outside the parenthesis?It looks so...

Hi, Could you please revise this paragraph for me? I'm a bit concerned about punctuation. “Participation in decision-making is something that is missing at the administrative level. There is participation, but it is ineffective. I might contribute my opinion, yet what is more important is that...

Hi all! Could you please revise this paragraph for me? I'm a bit concerned about punctuation. “Participation in decision-making is something that is missing at the administrative level. There is participation, but it is ineffective. I might contribute my opinion, yet what is more important is...

Hi, Most of the time when I look forward in my furture I see a world of challenges. But my past always looks to me a sea of pleasant memories although there have been many bad memories also. Almost everyone around me has changed into a hypocrite even people who were very nice some years ago....

The17pointscale wrote:However, if you're writing the paragraph for a newspaper, I believe that you always use quotation marks (the Associated Press guidelines are goofy). That's because the AP Stylebook was written for stories that are filed over the wire, and text formatting didn't use to be...