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The other day I helped an author be clear about what findings she could and could not report in the first of two articles she hopes to publish about one…
Underlining used to be the way to indicate to a printer that a word should be set in italicized type. With the advent of word processing, it became easier to…
Could you see the italics in the previous entry? Oh, good. Not because I worry about my computer, but because I want to explain why I used them. When you…