Category Archives: Defined Terms

Revisiting Mark Anderson’s Two-Column Definition Section

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Kenneth A. Adams

In this comment to a recent post on this blog, Mark Anderson—he of IP Draughts—makes the following recommendation: Ken, in my view best practice is to put definitions in two columns [using a two-column table], with the defined word in …

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Revisiting Use of Quotation Marks When Creating Defined Terms

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Kenneth A. Adams

Joan Heminway, professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law, sent the following inquiry to me and one of her colleagues: In commenting on student work, I have noticed over the years a decrease in student use of quotation …

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