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Caption: Booklet - Guide for Daily Illini Reporters (1918)
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PUNCTUATION Omit period after percent" and after ni iiainr: Tom, Sain. 2. Use Do comma before "and" in a isi: red. white and blue. 3. Punctuate lists of names with cities or stat s ibus: Arnold Baird, Peoria; R. Q. Andrews, Rockford; etc. Punctuate Ists Of names with officers thus: President, .1. S. Hall; vice-president, Henry Gantz; etc'. 4. Use a colon after a statement introlucing a direct quotation of one or more paragraphs and begin a new paragraph for the quotation. Use a colon after "as follows": 5. Never use a colon after viz., to wit, namely, e. g., i. e., except when they end a paragraph. Use colon, dash or semicolon before them and comma after them, thus: This is the m a n ; to wit, the victim. 6. Do not use a comma between a man's name and "Jr.," "Sr." or class numeral •' '18". 7. Do not use a hyphen in "today" or "tomorrow." 8. Use hyphen in compound numbers: thirty-two. 9. Use no apostrophe in such abbreviations as Frisco, varsity, phone, bus. 10. Use no comma in "6 feet 3 inches tall," "3 years 6 months old," etc. 11. Do not use periods after letters used as numerals: section B, etc. 12. Use no apostrophe in making plural of figures: the '90s, etc. l. QUOTATION QUOTE: 1. All verbatim quotations when they arc to be set In the same type and measure a 14
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