Name: Hirva Pandya
Roll No.: 10
Enrollment No.: 4069206420210022
Paper no: 209
Paper code: 22416
Paper name: Research Methodology
Sem.: 4 (Batch 2021- 2023)
Submitted to: Smt S.B. Gardi Department of English, M.K. Bhavnagar University
What is mechnics of writing
A writing mechanics definition could be the rules and conventions concerning technical aspects of writing composition. The category of writing mechanics includes technical areas such as punctuation and spelling that concern expressive accuracy. Mechanics can also be expanded to include organization within one's writing, such as ideas, words, sentences, and paragraphs.
Rules of Writing Mechanics
Rules of writing mechanics provide guidance about areas of writing, including parts of speech, sentence structure, capitalization, punctuation, abbreviations, and spelling. Each of these is addressed in the following sections
There are many mechanics of writing like spelling, punctuations, Italics, names of person , numbers , Title of research Papers,Capitalization and personal names other than English.
1.Spelling
Spelling including hypthesion should be consistent throughout the research paper, expect in quotation which must retain the spelling of the original whether correct or incorrect.
Word division:
Turn off automatic hypotension in your word processor. Dividing word at the end of unnecessary in research paper. It has disadvantages.
Plural:The plurals of English words are generally formed by addition of suffix with several expectation.
Foreign words:If you quote word from Foreign language you must reprouduce all accents and marks appear in original.
Punctuation:
The purpose of punctuations:The purpose of punctuation is to ensure clarity and read ability of writing Punctuation clarify sentence structure seorating some words and grouping to others.
Commas
Use commas before coordinating conjunction joining independent clauses in sentences.
Use commas to set off parathetical comments,or an aside if it is brief and closely related to the rest of the sentence.
Semicolons
Use a semicolon between independent clauses not linked by a conjunction.
Use semicolon between items in a series when the items contain comma.
Colons
The colon is used between two parts of a sentence when the first part creates a sense of anticipation about what follows in a second.
Use a colon to introduce a list , an elaboration of what was just said or the formal expression of a rule or principles.
List:
The reading List includes three american novels. The Death of crutz, the Green house one Hundred Years of solitude.
Elaboration:
To plot is to intended on depiction the three main characters have secret identity.
Dashes and parentheses
Dashes make sharper break in the continuity of the sentence than commas do, and parentheses make sharper one to indicate dashes, hyphen, with no space before, between or after. Your writing will be smoother or more readable if you uses dashes and parentheses springely. Limit the number of dashes in a sentences to paired dashes or one unpaired dashes.
Use dashes or parentheses to enclose sentence element that interpret the train of thought.
Use dashes or parentheses to set off parenthetical element that contains comma and that must be that might be misread if set off with commas.
Hyphens
Compound word of all types noun, verbs, adjectives ans so on are written as separate words,with hyphens.The dictionary shows how to write many compounds.
Use a hyphnens in compound adjective begining with adverb such as better, best, ill, little or well when adjectives precedes noun.
Use Hyphen in a compound adjectives forms by a numbers and a noun
Apostrophes:A principles funcation of apostrophes is to indicate possession. They are also used in contrastation can't , wouldn't
To form possessive of singular noun add an apostrophes and an s
Poem's metre
To form possessive plural noun adding 's' add only apostrophes
fireFighters truck
Quotation Mark
Place Quotation marks around a word pharse given in someone else's sense or purposefully misused
"A sliver dome conceled the roborts brain"
Square Brackets
Use a square brackets around parentheses within parentheses so the level of subordination can be easily distinguished.
The sect known as janists after colinains jenson [1585-1638]
Slashes
The slash , or diagonal is rarely necessary in formal prose. Other than in quotation of poetry. Slashes has placed mainly be two terms paired as opposite or alternative used together as noun.
The writer discusses how fundamental opposite like good/evil, east/west aged/younger affect way culture view historical events
Italics
Italic is style which character slant to the right.more visually pleasing then underlining if sometime less distinction Italicized is commonly accepted as research paper. In eletronic publication they do not permit Italicised. It is common to place underlined before and after each word or group of words that woùld be italicised in print.
Names of Person
In genral you use person's name in the text of your research paper. State it fully and accurately exactly it appears, in your source. In genral do not use formal titles in referring to men or women living or dead. A few woman in history are traditionally known as their titles as married women like, Mrs.Humphry ward.
Numbers
Although there are still few well established uses for roman numrals virtually all numbers not spelled out commonly represented today by arabic numrals. If the researchers or a person writing about literature,they may spellout the numbers. Be consistent in writing dates use either day month year style or month day year style but not both.use capital roman numerals for primary division of an outline and after the name of person in the series.
Quotations
Quotation are effective in research paper when they use selectively. Quote only words, passage, line, phaesesare particularly intresting.Keep all quotation as brief as possible. Over quotation can bore your readers and might lead them to conclude that you are neither original thinker not skillful writers Quotations are mainly used in poetry, prose, drama.
Capitalization and personal names in languages other than english
The following sections contains recommandation for writing personal names and Capitalization of French, latin ,German names.
French:
In prose and verse french Capitalization is same as English except the following terms are not Capitalized unless they begin sentences sometime lines of verse. (1).subject pronoun(2)Name of days and week (3)The names of language (4)Adjective derived from proper noun(5) Title pretending personal names
German
German is Genrally not used with last name alone but there are some exception especially English language context where the von firmly established by convention.
Italian
The names many Italians who lived before and during the renaissance are alphabetical first name.in prose and verse capitalization, same as English expect italian century and other large division of time are capitalize.
Spanish
Spnish is not used before last name alone. A Spanish surname may include both paternal and maternal name with or without conjunction. In prose verse Spanish capitalization same as English except some term are not. (1) The subject pronoun (2) noun and adjectives (3) The word meaning squre and street.
Latin:.
Roman male citizens have three names a prenomen(given name)Noman (clan name) and congoman(family and familiar name) men in this category are usually referred to by noman cognoman or both your source or standrad reference book such as The Oxford classical Dicationary will provide guidance. Capitalization in Latin most commonly follows the English rules for capitalization expect that ego I is not Capitalized
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