Documentation

Documentation has the following characteristics relating to rules of convention: "presentation of authors' names; indentation; punctuation; presentation of dates of publication; use of italics, capitals, and quotation marks; and use of abbreviations" (Giltrow, Study Guide, 39). The functions of documentation are the following: (1) to credit another author; (2) to give credibility to one's own views; and (3) to provide a sort of bibliography so that an interested reader can follow-up on some topic by locating the entire source of a relevant citation.

In the course of the following inquiry, seven cases of documentation will be examined with regard to documentation. Conventions of punctuation, indentation, presentation of dates, and other characteristics of documentation wil

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Approximate Word count = 918
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page)

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