NPC 2017 Writing Bootcamp: Pencils Ready! #9108446 Reference Resources Writing The Creative Habit, Twyla Tharp Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges, Antonin Scalia and Brian Garner The Elements of Style, William Strunk and E.B. White On Writing Well, William Zinsser Planning in Plain English, Natalie Macris Royal Bank of Canada Letters (see The Communication of Ideas) http://www.rbc.com/aboutus/letter/thematic_index.html#ideas Editing The Subversive Copy Editor, Carol Fisher Saller Watch Your Language and The Careful Writer, Theodore M. Bernstein Associated Press Stylebook Chicago Manual of Style Gregg Reference Manual, William A. Sabin The Subversive Copy Editor blog http://www.subversivecopyeditor.com/blog/ Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/grammar-girl-quick-dirty-tips/id173429229?mt=2 Copyediting. Language in the Digital Age http://www.copyediting.com And a dictionary—on your desk or online!

Document Design The Elements of Typographic Style, Robert Bringhurst Indie Publishing, Ellen Lupton Universal Principles of Design, William Lidwell, Kristina Holden, Jill Butler The Non-Designer’s Design Book, Robin Williams

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A hyphen is used: • in compound adjectives (state-of-the-art design) • to mark word divisions at the end of one line and the beginning of another Never put a space around hyphens Dashes indicate added emphasis, an interruption, or change of thought. They are generally used without spaces. An en dash marks: • age, distance, size, time-span (2010 – 2011). • a phrase of conflict or comparison (the town – gown divide, the Back Bay – Beacon

Hill area) An em dash is used (with judgment) to set off a phrase: • instead of commas

(The designer gathered her gear—pencils, pads, image board—and left.) • instead of parentheses

(After days at their drafting boards, the draftsmen were fed up with the master’s direction—or lack of direction.)

• replacing a colon (The designers agreed—tacky).