modicum of style— coding conventions

... gem Seven rules of usage, eleven principles of composition, a few matters of form, and a list of words and expressions commonly misused — that was the sum and substance of Professor Strunk's ... Style rules of this sort are, of course, somewhat a matter of individual preference, and even the established rules of grammar are open to challenge Professor Strunk, although one of the most ... permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc Also copyright © 1969 by Jean Stafford; reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.) If the experiences of Walter Mitty, of Molly Bloom, of Rabbit...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 00:15

... C# Coding Conventions Revision History Date Version Description Author 12/25/2007 0.1 Initial Draft Hoang Nguyen Success Software Service Corp Ltd C# Coding Conventions Table of Contents ... Success Software Service Corp Ltd C# Coding Conventions 0.31 USING STATEMENTS 15 0.32 MISCELLANEOUS PRACTICES 15 Success Software Service Corp Ltd C# Coding Conventions ... control, the full name of the control, and the name of the software vendor: Prefix cmdm Control Type Command Button Success Software Service Corp Ltd Vendor MicroHelp 14 C# Coding Conventions Programming...

Ngày tải lên: 14/01/2014, 14:47

... vs can 42 sparing use of 20 meaningful 53 memento 53 metaphor, use of 80 might, sparing use of 20 modal auxiliaries sparing use of 20 modifier(s) adjectival 12 position of 30-31 most vs almost ... vs he/she 60-61 thirdly, misuse of 57 this, ambiguous reference 61 thrust 61 thus, semicolon with time, notation of titles (of persons), punctuation of titles (of works) 8, 38 together with, subjects ... pronoun as 11, 12 object complements inverted position of 33 in periodic sentence 32 offputting 54 one 54-55 one of, verb form after 9-10 one of the most 55 ongoing 54 opinion, injecting in writing...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... want to know The special vocabularies of the law, of the military, of government are familiar to most of us Even the world of criticism has a modest pouch of private words (luminous, taut), whose ... Today, the language of advertising enjoys an enormous circulation With its deliberate infractions of grammatical rules and its crossbreeding of the parts of speech, it profoundly influences the ... standard to the offbeat Young writers will be drawn at every turn toward eccentricities in language They will hear the beat of new vocabularies, the exciting rhythms of special segments of their society,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... become prosy and wooden; instead of the secret sounds of beauty, we are left with the simple crunch of mastication (Whether Mr Wolfe was guilty of overwriting is, of course, another question — one ... substance of the writing, rather than to the mood and temper of the author If the writing is solid and good, the mood and temper of the writer will eventually be revealed and not at the expense of the ... www.tailieuduhoc.org Avoid the use of qualifiers Rather, very, little, pretty — these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words The constant use of the adjective little (except...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... prospect of the Senate but with a prospect of accepting Any sentence in which the use of the possessive is awkward or impossible should of course be recast In the event of a reconsideration of the ... www.tailieuduhoc.org One of the most Avoid this feeble formula "One of the most exciting developments of modern science is "; "Switzerland is one of the most beautiful countries of Europe." There is ... the line of French literature She is studying French literature Literal Literally Often incorrectly used in support of exaggeration or violent metaphor a literal flood of abuse a flood of abuse...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc Also, by permission of The Provost and Scholars of King's College, Cambridge, and The Society of Authors as the literary representatives of the E M Forster ... not the replacement of one word or set of words by another but the replacement of vague generality by definite statement The shape of our language is not rigid; in questions of usage we have no ... series of loose sentences should recast enough of them to remove the monotony, replacing them with simple sentences, sentences of two clauses joined by a semicolon, periodic sentences of two...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... there is still one chance of escape Two-part sentences of which the second member is introduced by as (in the sense of "because"), for, or, nor, or while (in the sense of "and at the same time") ... Indeed, this simple method of indicating relationship between statements is one of the most useful devices of composition The relationship, as above, is commonly one of cause and consequence Note ... clause The squalor of the streets reminded her of a line from Oscar Wilde: "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." The colon also has certain functions of form: to follow...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... gem Seven rules of usage, eleven principles of composition, a few matters of form, and a list of words and expressions commonly misused — that was the sum and substance of Professor Strunk's ... Style rules of this sort are, of course, somewhat a matter of individual preference, and even the established rules of grammar are open to challenge Professor Strunk, although one of the most ... www.tailieuduhoc.org The Elements of Style Oliver Strunk Contents FOREWORD ix INTRODUCTION xiii I ELEMENTARY RULES OF USAGE 1 Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's In a series of three or more terms...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... Number of friends the blogger has Number of downloadable posts (0-25) Number of posts written in total Mode hour (00-23) and day the blogger posts Average number of comments per post number of emoticons1 ... per post number of emoticons1 number of internet acronyms1 number of words that are not found in the dictionary1 number of stand-alone punctuation1 number of words (with length > 1) that are all ... of our experiments in Weka (Hall et al., 2009) using logistic regression over 10 runs of 10-fold cross-validation All values shown are 768 blogger.com 2004 livejournal.com 2010 # of Blogs # of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 22:20

... prosperity, and adversity The meaning of the topic sentence made clearer; the new conception of history defined The history of morals, of industry, of intellect, and of art; the changes that take place ... heel of Achilles the laws of Moses the temple of Isis The pronominal possessives hers, its, theirs, yours, and oneself have no apostrophe CHAPTER II ELEMENTARY RULES OF USAGE In a series of three ... the letter, read it and made a note of its contents This is also the usage of the Government Printing Of ce and of the Oxford University Press In the names of business firms the last comma is omitted,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... New York or Paris Since so much of my father’s time was spent in the oppressive heat and humidity of Barranquilla, he really seemed infatuated with winter On all of these trips, I learned about ... culture, the fashions, the art, but most of all how differently everyone dressed When we returned home, my mother would have piles of new clothes in need of alteration My father would change back ... you a few tricks of the trade This is a crash course on style references, insider tips, and avoiding being the fashion victim With this book I offer my own insights, a smattering of suggestions,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:10

... la moglie morta), i titoli stessi dei suoi quadri (Girlhood of Maryyirgin ; Anelila Domini; Dante drawing an Angel on thè Anniversary of Beatrice's Death ) fanno fede di questo preciso, inderogabile, ... serpentinate dei pavoni fino a ricadere morbidamente nelle gocce luminose delle piccole lumiere a soffino osC soffuso splendore di un verde-oro luminoso e trasparente Aucte os: quadri, che Whistler intitolava ... ii reperimento del materiale fotografico ; tra gli altri Wotfram Prinz dell'Università di Francoforte, Natlian Shaplra dell'Università di Las Angeles, Massimo Becattinì, Enzo Creslini, Liliana...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 09:15

... effective date of January 1, 2000 This edition of the Manual of Style represents a complete rewrite and reorganization of the previous edition The April 2000 edition of the Manual of Style supersedes ... Origin and Development of the April 2000 Edition of the Manual of Style The first edition of the Manual of Style was issued in 1972 and was based primarily upon the Chicago Manual of Style The second ... the top of the page 1.5.4.1 The committee list shall include the names of all the persons who were committee members at the time of the final committee balloting of the specific edition of the...

Ngày tải lên: 27/03/2014, 21:18

... gem Seve n rul es of usage , eleven principl es of composition, a few matters of form, and a list of words and expressions commonly misused-that was the sum and su bstance of Professor Strunk's ... Styl e rules of this sort are, of course, somewhat a matter of individual preference, and even the established rules of grammar ar e open to challe nge Professor Strunk, although one of the most ... sy of men , was qui ck to acknowledge the fallacy of infl exibility and the danger of doctrine "It is an old observation," he wrote, " that the best writ ers some times disregard the rul es of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/05/2014, 13:07

... tarnished gem Seven rules of usage, eleven principles of composition, a few matters of form, and a list of words and expressions commonly misused—that was the sum and substance of Professor Strunk's work ... Style rules of this sort are, of course, somewhat a matter of individual preference, and even the established rules of grammar are open to challenge Professor Strunk, although one of the most ... ELEMENTS OF STYLE One of the ablest scientists who has attacked this problem One of the ablest scientists who have attacked this problem One of those people who is never ready on time One of those...

Ngày tải lên: 09/05/2014, 13:08

... history of rhetoric and its equally dynamic history in the field of composition 2 OUT OF STYLE In composition studies, the salient features of style— which Richard Ohmann defines as “a way of writing” ... deployed various elements of form to help achieve his overall effect I now know that my analysis of the sonnet falls under the rubric of stylistics—or the study of style—whose history in literature ... patient, helpful, and enthusiastic support of this book He has offered the kind of encouragement xii OUT OF STYLE that anyone undertaking a project of this scope would welcome and appreciate...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:44

... is now a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering From June 2000 to March 2001, he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer ... seconds for different combination of frame rate and the number of I-frames in a Group Of Pictures The graph in Figure shows that the delay is proportional to the frequency of I-frames The application ... we can decode the bitstream The problem addressed is that of transmitting a sequence of frames of stored video using the minimum amount of energy subject to video quality and bandwidth constraints...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... gem Seven rules of usage, eleven principles of composition, a few matters of form, and a list of words and expressions commonly misused — that was the sum and substance of Professor Strunk's ... Style rules of this sort are, of course, somewhat a matter of individual preference, and even the established rules of grammar are open to challenge Professor Strunk, although one of the most ... permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc Also copyright © 1969 by Jean Stafford; reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.) If the experiences of Walter Mitty, of Molly Bloom, of Rabbit...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 08:06

... prosperity, and adversity (The meaning of the topic sentence made clearer; the new conception of history defined.) The history of morals, of industry, of intellect, and of art; the changes that take place ... the letter, read it, and made a note of its contents This is also the usage of the Government Printing Office and of the Oxford University Press In the names of business firms the last comma is ... the end of a line for one or more syllables of a word, but not for the whole word, divide the word, unless this involves cutting off only a single letter, or cutting off only two letters of a long...

Ngày tải lên: 22/07/2014, 21:21