Of MS and men…

Wikipedia appears to have a good entry on manuscript. On that page are this beautiful image of an Armenian manuscript and a gloss of MS and MSS. I found the entry by typing abbreviation for manuscript in the Google search engine. When I typed abbreviation MS, the search results listed this page first.

Hyperlinks and Acronyms

Microsoft Word always makes e-mail addresses and websites as hyperlinks. Is it only appropriate to have e-mail addresses and websites as a hyperlinks on more web-based texts? (Is the business letter for Midterm 2 meant to be sent on paper or through e-mail?)

Also, is it appropriate to use acronyms, such as MS, when the acronyms are commonly used in society? Or should we state what the acronym stands for?

Parallelism, and Pages

Exercise 15, Problem 8, Page 122
Original: Children have to learn to ask nicely instead of going around making demands.
Answer: Children have to learn to ask nicely instead of demanding.

Is there a better way to copyedit that sentence? For example, the sentence could have read: Children have to learn to ask nicely instead of make demands."


Also, what is the difference between pg., pp. and p. when indicating page(s)?