... polished, and nickel rods were welded to its edge. PDF created: Mon, Aug 3, 1998 - 11:47 AMNASA SP-7084 Grammar, Punctuation, and Capitalization A Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors ... 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 ... internally punctuated elements of series, explanatory phrases and clauses, and elliptical clausessentence style capitalization- capitalization of the first letter of an element, for example,...