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Guidelines for Using Parentheses

  • Use parentheses to de-emphasize enclosed material; eg., The cost analysis in the report (did you read it?) seems inaccurate.
  • Parentheses are frequently used to punctuate sentences with interpolated directions, explanations, questions, and references; eg., The cost analysis (which appears on page six of the report) seems inaccurate.
  • A parenthetical sentence that is not embedded within another sentence should be capitalized and punctuated with end punctuation; eg., The new model has stronger construction.  (You may order this model for the company.)
  • Parentheses are used to document sources in the text of research papers; eg., The paradigm of this new marketing scheme was promoted internationally in 1999 [Roland 23].

 

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