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How To Improve Your Writing: Em Dashes And Ellipses
Editing, whether it is for an academic journal, a short story submission, or a non-fiction manuscript for publishing, always follows the basic rules of grammar and punctuation. This article will help you learn the basic rules of using both the em dashes and ellipses, and how to use them accurately in your work. While this article will assist fiction writers most often, this is a useful skill to have in your writing arsenal.
Did you know there is an en dash AND an em dash? Well, there is and we are going to cover the em dash this week.
The em dash
The em dash is a longer dash that is similar to a hyphen. It is used to show a pause in a quote that is all one sentence, and it is also used to show when one sentence trails off and another begins.
For example,
"I hope that you have told me the truth - you don't always." This quote is all one sentence, but there was a pause in between the words truth and you that are represented by the em dash.
OR
"He just walked right in through the - He didn't even think to announce his presence!" This shows that one sentence trailed off and another began - NOTE the capital letter to begin the second sentence.
When typing in Microsoft Word, you can prompt one of these dashes by placing a space after the last letter of the word, hitting the hyphen key (next to the zero) and then pressing your spacebar again before typing the next word. Most Microsoft Word applications use an auto format that will insert the em dash for you.
Ellipses
In contrast, the ellipsis is used to show when a thought trails off and the sentence is incomplete. It is a series of three dots.
For example,
"I just couldn't believe what he was..." she muttered, as if to herself.
These quotation marks most often trip up fiction writers, as they're used often in dialogue. However, whether you are writing a fiction piece, or working on an academic submission, please remember that a professional editor will always assist you with your work.
Tune in again next week when we explore the en dash and the differences between both the en dash and the em dash. Both are highly used and when used right will ensure your document is well polished.
About the Author
Full-time professional editor, published writer & marketing consultant, Heather Todd has a passion for helping others create a letter-perfect presentation in their writing. Ms. Todd provides advisory & consulting services worldwide to numerous corporations, a small sampling of such businesses include:
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Im planning to upgrade to a smart phone, should I get a t-mobile shadow, dash, or a Blackberry pearl?
I heard the Blackberry has a fee to use wi fi and email. Does the Shadow and Dash have free wi fi and email capabilities, or is there a fee to use them? And is it free to use microsoft mobile office, or is there a fee for that too? Which of the three is the best choice?
The BlackBerry Curve 8320 on T-Mobile does have Wi-Fi, not the Pearl (8100). There will be a Pearl 8120 released that has Wi-Fi, but that is still down the road. And there isn't any fee to use Wi-Fi. However, there is a fee for the BlackBerry data plan, which allows you to get push e-mail to the device.
If you do get a Dash or Shadow their won't be a fee for Office mobile, as that is part of the smart phone.
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Dynamics GP Reshaping Chart of Accounts
If you are working in accounting department in large company with several business entities installed and implemented in this Corporate ERP application, chart of accounts transformation might be a necessity. It is often expected when your company adopts new standards, and that should be reflected in General Ledger module. We will try to give you some highlights, which we are basing on our real consulting experience. We do not recommend this change to be done in-house, rather we are encouraging you to share this information with your current consulting team to see if they are comfortable with the idea. Let's begin with Account concept overview in GP:
1. There are known facts about Account ID length – it can have up to ten segments and total length may not exceed sixty six characters (that could be uppercase letters or digits). We are not sure about initial few versions of Great Plains as our consulting practice was launched in 1995. But even those days, when GP was in ERP market active penetration some of the documents and their GL distribution tables were based on physical account ID. However the trend in Great Plains reshaping with each new version (pretty challenging Dexterity programming project) was switch from Account ID to so-called Account Index. This project was finished around 1998, and since then all the distribution tables reference account by Account Index (unique integer), while end user still enjoys the account segmentation in the application user interface
2. Accounts Segment Table introduction. Around the year 2000 GP got new feature – separate table for each possible account Segment. This is GL40200 table and you can look at its row in SQL Server Management Studio Query. Table is very simple and it just has Segment Number, ID, and Name. The idea behind is also simple, but powerful – when you are creating new account – the account description is created automatically for you with each segments listed with dash separator, for example: Corporate-Accounts Receivable-Wholesale. Next table to review is Account Master, famous GL00100, where you can see all the account segment numbers listed, account index, main segment, account description and other fields. And the third important table is Account Index Master (GL00105). This table has Index itself, Account Number (in SQL this is combination of columns representing each segment, such as ACTNUMBR_1, etc.), plus Account Number String (this is the concatenated string, containing each account segment in sequence, separated by dash symbol). Account Number String is unique index and it should be updated, when you are updating each account Segment in GL40200 and respectively in GL00100 tables
3. Account Change suggested procedure. Of course you cannot do it in user interface, however it is legitimate routine for SQL programmer. What is recommended – first install test server with Dynamics and each company database loaded from production backup (do not do this surgery on production without several test circles). The procedure itself has three steps. First – be sure that the new segments are created or one-to-one renamed in GL40200. Second Step – be sure that you are legitimately renaming required segment number in GL00100 (for example if you are renaming the second segment, the field name is ACTNUMBR_2). The third step is to rebuild GL00105 Account Index table (this routine we recommend to entrust to Account Number table cluster Check Links maintenance procedure, simply run this SQL statement against company DB: Delete GL00105 and then run Check Links on Account Master – it will recreate GL00105 table)
4. Additional Elegant Step. You may also rename all the account descriptions in GL00100 account master table by reading segment names, separating them by dashes from GL40200 table. We don't have space in this publication to give you exact SQL Stored Procedure or Cursor, but it should be a nice piece of cake for experienced SQL DBA or Programmer in your IT department
5. Some comments on old version of Great Plains Dynamics Select. If you are on the version where your database platform is not MS SQL Server, but Pervasive SQL 2000/Btrieve or Ctree (7.5, 7.0, 6.0, 5.5, 5.0, 4.0 or earlier), then theoretically you can do the same routine via ODBC compliance database access tool, such as Microsoft Access (with linked ODBC tables to Great Plains via Pervasive SQL ODBC driver), and we do not recommend you to launch this (pretty expensive) project on the historical version. The cost of upgrade to the current version 2010/11.0 is comparable, where account number reshuffling project is much easier (MS SQL Server power, plus consulting resource availability, plus technical support directly from Microsoft Business Solutions in case if something happens)
6. FRx Financial Statements or Microsoft Management Reporter update. Please, be sure that you have adequate account change project coordination with your FRx consultant, as all the reports (required change in Row Format, potential change in Reporting Tree and Column Layout, as there you can base your selection on Account Natural Segment or Full Account Length) should be reviewed in FRx (or Microsoft Management Reporter is you already deployed this new Financial Reporting tool for version 2010 or 10.0)
7. Dexterity Customization Code Review. Some older Dex custom modules were coded with Account Segments logic (and without newly recommended Account Index logic). If you have unique in-house programmed (or specially developed for your organization by independent Dexterity software developer) Dexterity module, please consider hiring technical consultant, who is experienced in Dexterity to review its code to be compliant to your new account structure plan
About the Author
Andrew Karasev is Great Plains Certified Master, MVP, [email protected] 1-866-304-3265, 1-269-605-4904. He is also the initiator of eFaru project http://www.efaru.com and founder of Alba Spectrum information space
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