... dash.emphasis,brevity and, 33colon and, 43, 46, 47comma and, 43, 51dash and, 43, 57, 58dash vs. semicolon, 58italics for, 41, 63lists, 42on action, 28, 30parallelism and, 41parentheses and, 57positions ... examples are highly technical and therefore harder to understand, but technical editors and other technical publishing professionals must understand grammar, punctuation, and capitalization in the ... sentences the pronouns this and which refer to the idea of the previous sentence or clause and do not have a noun antecedent. The Writer's Guide and Index to English (Ebbitt and Ebbitt 1978) states...