Реферат: Peculiarities of prose style
In journalism , see the following entries in the Associated Press Stylebook : "composition titles," "magazine names," "newspaper names." In summary, these entries indicate that most composition titles (books, plays, songs, television shows, etc.) should be enclosed in quotation marks but not in italics. Newspaper and magazine titles, however, should neither be italicized nor enclosed in quotation marks.
11. Numbers
11.1 Spell out a number when it begins a sentence.
11.2 Spell out a number that can be written in one or two words (except as noted in 11.3) and 11.5):
three twenty-two five thousand one million
11.3 If numbers that can be written as one or two words cluster closely together in the sentence, use numerals instead:
The ages of the members of the city council are 69, 64, 58, 54,47, 45, and 35.
11.4 Use numerals if spelling out a number would require more than two words:
3507,1254,978,2655.78
11.5 Use numerals for addresses, dates, exact times of day, exact sums of money, exact measurements (including miles per hour), game scores, mathematical ratios, and page numbers:
55 mph ratio of 4-to-1 $6.75 p. 37
In journalism, see the numerals entry in the Associated Press Stylebook .
12. Quotation Marks
12.1 Use double quotation marks to create irony by setting off words you don't take at face value:
The "debate" resulted in three cracked heads and two broken noses.
12.2 Do not use quotation marks to create emphasis (see 9.1).
12.3 Use single quotation marks to enclose a quotation within a quotation:
At the beginning of the class, the professor asked, "What does Kuhn mean by 'paradigm shifts,' and what is their relationship to normal science?"
12.4 If the quotation will take more than four lines on the page, use indentation instead of quotation marks to indicate that the passage is a quotation. Introduce the quotation with a colon, set it off from the rest of the text by triple-spacing (assuming the rest of the text is double-spaced), indent ten spaces from the left margin, and single-space the quoted passage. To indicate a new paragraph within the quoted material, indent an additional three spaces.
12.5 Do not use quotation marks with indirect discourse, or with rhetorical, unspoken, or imaginary questions:
Frank said he was sorry he couldn't be here.
Why am I doing this? she wondered.
13. Punctuating Quotations
13.1 Do not use a comma to mark the end of a quoted sentence that is followed by an identifying tag if the quoted sentence ends in a question mark or an exclamation point:
"Get out!" he screamed.
13.2 Commas and periods go inside closing quotation marks; semicolons and colons go outside the closing quotation marks:
Peter's response was "Money is no object," but the lawyer was still unwilling to accept his case.
The senator announced, "I will not seek reelection"; then he left the room.
13.3 Place a question mark or an exclamation point inside the closing quotation marks only if it belongs to the quotation rather than to the larger sentence: