Re: Punctuation: Period

Subject: Re: Punctuation: Period
From: Sue Heim <SUE -at- RIS -dot- RISINC -dot- COM>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 08:54:10 PST

Loren Castro wrote:

> The term "etc." is inappropriate in technical writing, where items that
> are important enough to be indicated by the term are important enough
> to
> be listed explicitly.

> Don't use "etc." at the end of a list introduced by "such as" or "for
> example."

Since I didn't see any other replies to this, well, heck, here goes!
I don't use "etc." at all in writing (either abbreviated or spelled
out). Instead I use "and so on."

Sue Heim
Research Information Systems
Email: Sue -at- ris -dot- risinc -dot- com


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