Writing for University Courses - PunctuationWriting for University Courses - Punctuation| Advice | Practice |
| Development Level menu . ? ! , : " ' ; ' ( ) - / Full stop or dot Question mark Exclamation mark Comma Colon Double or single quotation marks or inverted commas Semicolon Apostrophe Brackets Hyphen Slash |
Development Level Advice" ' Double or single quotation marks/inverted commasFor the main uses of quotation marks/inverted commas see the Starter Level. The following describes a further use. To use a word in a special way or draw attention to itYou can pick out a word in your text which you want the reader specially to notice, by putting it in inverted commas.
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Who knows what the 'right' answer is. In this package we use 'document' to mean any piece of written work. It might help your readers if you used double quotation marks/inverted commas for quotations, and single ones for words you want them specially to notice. |