TY - BOOK AU - Kipfer, Barbara Ann. AU - Princeton Language Institute. TI - 21st century manual of style AV - R PN 147 T918 1993 PY - 1993/// CY - New York PB - Dell Pub. KW - Authorship -- Dictionaries KW - Authorship -- Style manuals N2 - Contains three parts which are :Part One_"Form:From A to Z", is a dictionary of words and terms thata re often styled incorrectly,along with at -a-glance guidelines for their proper styling.Examples:CPU is the abbreviated fro central processing unit; Earth is capitalized when referring to the planet and lowercased to signify "dirt" or "ground",Mother's Day is capitalized and is the second Sunday in May,trnasluicent and transparent ,two words commonly misused ,are cross-referenced and defined.Includes styling medical or scientific terms.Part Two:"Description,"is a catalogue or thousands of Proper Nouns and rules of style that govern them; Nouns are divided by category and its category begins with gweral guidelines outlining any special styling requirements that are specific to it.These rules ate followed by a complete a; phabetical selection odf hundreds of correctly styled Prper NOuns in common usage within that individual category.Part Three:"Rules of Punctuation",gives users a brief overview and refresher of the essentials.Forms a primer on how to use all of of the major punctuation marks-from apostrophesto slashes,how to divide words,and how to use numbers in text ER -