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  2. Help : Introduction to the Manual of Style/Manual of Style quiz

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    This passage mixes varieties of English: "centre" is spelled using British English, but "colors" is American English. This could be resolved either by changing centre to center or by changing colors to colours.

  3. List of style guides - Wikipedia

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    A style guide, or style manual, is a set of standards for the writing and design of documents, either for general use or for a specific publication, organization or field. The implementation of a style guide provides uniformity in style and formatting within a document and across multiple documents.

  4. Bimodality - Wikipedia

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    Bimodality is the simultaneous use of two distinct pitch collections. It is more general than bitonality since the "scales" involved need not be traditional scales; if diatonic collections are involved, their pitch centers need not be the familiar major and minor-scale tonics.

  5. English writing style - Wikipedia

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    An English writing style is a combination of features in an English language composition that has become characteristic of a particular writer, a genre, a particular organization, or a profession more broadly (e.g., legal writing).

  6. This is a good example of the subtle interaction between wikilinking and prose. "War" and "persecution" are probably misleading, even in summary style. Readers should not have to hunt down the meaning by travelling to those "hidden" links. Now that these links are more explicit, readers are more likely to want to find out more by clicking on them.

  7. Category:Style guides for American English - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 27 November 2023, at 02:34 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  8. The Elements of Style - Wikipedia

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    The Elements of Style (also called Strunk & White) is a style guide for formal grammar used in American English writing. The first publishing was written by William Strunk Jr. in 1918, and published by Harcourt in 1920, comprising eight "elementary rules of usage," ten "elementary principles of composition," "a few matters of form," a list of 49 "words and expressions commonly misused," and a ...

  9. Writing style - Wikipedia

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    In literature, writing style is the manner of expressing thought in language characteristic of an individual, period, school, or nation. [1] As Bryan Ray notes, however, style is a broader concern, one that can describe "readers' relationships with, texts, the grammatical choices writers make, the importance of adhering to norms in certain contexts and deviating from them in others, the ...