Sentences with phrase «paragraphs over the page»

Not exact matches

We'd rather have the Times than not, but we're more than happy to take the Daily News» full - throated endorsement over the Times» tepid, pro-forma, 2 - paragraph piece at the bottom of the page that says as many good things about Rory as it does about our main opponent.»

Widows and orphans: The first line of a paragraph shouldn't fall on the last line of a page, and the last line of a paragraph should not go over to the top of the next page.

It wants you unsettled from page one, balancing on your tiptoes as you try to make sense of this narrative because it's just all over the place and totally disregarding real paragraphs and third - person POV and what is it doing now?

In page 314 - 315 of Al Gore's 2013 «The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change» book, he goes into a little more detail over the span of four paragraphs, but the idea is essentially the same:

You know, going over every single page to make sure there are no mistakes on any page, paragraph or sentence.

In a comprehensive decision, weighing in at a hefty 391 paragraphs over 85 pages, the panel concluded that, in his defence of John B. Felderhof, Groia had indeed crossed the line from ill - considered language blurted out in the «heat of the moment,» and had engaged in a concerted and sustained barrage of personal and unwarranted attacks on his opponents that were uncivil to the point of breaching the Rules of Professional Conduct.

In the course of editing contributions I've come to realize how handy it would be to be able to link over to a designated paragraph in an SCC judgment, para numbers being the points of internal reference for online judgments since there are no page numbers, of course.

[The novice] thinks through an idea only until it is passably clear to him, since, for his purposes, it needn't be any clearer; he dispenses with transitions because it's enough that he knows how his ideas connect; he uses a private system — or no system — of punctuation; he doesn't trouble to define his terms because he understands perfectly well what he means by them; he writes page after page without bothering to vary his sentence structure; he leaves off page numbers and footnotes; he paragraphs only when the mood strikes him; he ends abruptly when he decides he's had enough; he neglects to proofread the final job because the writing is over... Given his total self - orientation, it's no wonder that he fails repeatedly as a writer.

«Given the huge amount of attention Amazon received over the drone story — due to Bezos» 60 Minutes interview — I would have thought the Prime Air effort deserved more than a single sentence at the end of a paragraph on page 5 of the letter,» Charles King, principal at Pund - IT, told the E-Commerce...

He prefers bullet points over paragraphs and suggests your résumé be about a page in length for every 10 years of job history you're including — which means most should be a page or two at most.

Mounce encouraged him to cut back on an entire page of continuing education, shift from paragraph form to a more concise list of bullet points to explain positions, and to shorten the positions» descriptions on the jobs held over 10 years ago.

Most experts agree that cover letters should be kept short and sweet: try to keep it to three or four paragraphs and don't go over a page.

Do you find it best to keep the three or four short paragraphs on one page, or do you generally find it acceptable to roll it over to a second page?

And then there's the «hang over,» when a partial sentence, last line of a paragraph, is carried over to the top of the next page (verboten) and, then there's the position of the comma or period, relative to quotation marks.