Periods and commas always go inside the closing quotation mark (in American English). Question marks and exclamation points require you to think about the sentence a little to determine where they go. Quotation mark image courtesy ofShutterstock.
A vineyard Photo courtesy Chatham Hill Winery Typically, the type of grape that is used to make the wine gives the wine its name, such as Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Zinfandel. However, some wines are blends of various types of wines, such as a Semillon Chardonnay. The blending of...
What type of organisation do you see before you if I tell you that there is no top down strategy, no pre-defined roles, no budgets, no performance targets, full transparency and sharing of information (incl. financials), self-organising teams, fully decentralised decision-making, and where ch...
A cover page creates a first impression of you to your reader. A well-written cover page can either make them eager to read your work, but a poorly written cover page can cause them to stop before they read any of the content. Take your time and ensure that you spell every word on ...
According to this principle, an aspiring writer’s including word count is a courtesy to those who ask for it. Offering it unasked to those who do not is, while certainly not required, something that Millicent is likely to regard as a positive blessing — but that doesn’t mean it’s ...
Image Courtesy Hulu.com At any time of day, anywhere in the U.S., you can watch network television shows, feature films and video clips in your Web browser using a free online video service called Hulu. You can access videos at Hulu.com or at one of the sites run by Hulu distributi...
178 Robert Osserman – How the Gateway Arch Got its Shape We are finally in a position to spell out precisely the relation between the shape of the Arch and the basic geometric decisions that were made. In particular we see that the complicated-looking values of the coefficients A and B ...
Okay, that's phonemes in a nutshell—a hugely simplified definition that will do us for starters. If you want to know more, start with the article on phonemes in Wikipedia.In theory, if a computer has a dictionary of words and phonemes, all it needs to do to read a word is look ...
You describe intellectual humility as “believing with the firmness the given belief merits,” where firmness is determined by “the reliability of the cognitive faculties that produced it.” I think your account actually names another intellectual virtue: “intellectual firmness,” where persons have ...
Think of it like spell-checking, or proof reading, but for composing music. RisingFallingDuring the stage of music preparation a composer will add things like courtesy accidentals, adjust the key, add other notes, other keys, adjust a notes pitch. The most important thing for music to be ...