When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Novels - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/...

    "A book cover for NovelTitle."), and an image copyright tag: If the cover image is still under copyright, {{Non-free use rationale book cover}} and {{Non-free book cover}} should both be on the file description page. On the image line of the infobox template, insert the image's filename. A short description can be included in the field image ...

  3. Pen name - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_name

    William Sydney Porter, known widely by his pen name O. Henry or Olivier Henry, in 1909. A pen name or nom-de-plume is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name.

  4. List of Latin abbreviations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_abbreviations

    Imperative, [1] used after a term or phrase that should be looked up elsewhere in the current document or book. For more than one term or phrase, the plural qq.v. is used. re in re "in the matter of", "concerning" Often used to prefix the subject of traditional letters and memoranda.

  5. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles of works - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/.../Titles_of_works

    Titles in quotation marks that include (or in unusual cases consist of) something that requires italicization for some other reason than being a title, e.g., a genus and species name, or a non-English phrase, or the name of a larger work being referred to, also use the needed italicization, inside the quotation marks: "Ferromagnetic Material in ...

  6. List of book titles taken from literature - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_book_titles_taken...

    Many authors will use quotations from literature as the title for their works. This may be done as a conscious allusion to the themes of the older work or simply because the phrase seems memorable. The following is a partial list of book titles taken from literature. It does not include phrases altered for parody.

  7. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguistic_example...

    There is no convincing evidence that Churchill said this, and good reason to believe that he did not.) [19] [20] The sentence "does not demonstrate the absurdity of using [prepositional phrase] fronting instead of stranding; it merely illustrates the ungrammaticality resulting from fronting something that is not a constituent". [21] [22]

  8. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/.../Words_to_watch

    Instead of writing that someone took the plunge, state their action matter-of-factly. In general, if a literal reading of a phrase makes no sense given the context, the sentence needs rewording. Some idioms are common only in certain parts of the world, and many readers are not native speakers of English; articles should not presume familiarity ...

  9. Title (publishing) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_(publishing)

    To make the content of the book easy to ascertain, there came the custom of printing on the top page a title, a few words in larger letters than the body, and thus readable from a greater distance. As the book evolved, most books became the product of an author. Early books, like those of the Old Testament, did not have authors.