Edited by Aodhfionn McCambridge-Geraghty, Monday, 3 Mar 2025, 23:21
'And' was not the word I was going to start with but it is. I'm breaking rules I learnt from above. Apparently a comma should not come before a 'but' because the 'but' is a pause in itself. Just like you should not start a sentence with 'and', I believe we shouldn't really start sentences with 'but'. I've seen a few sentences start with 'but'. Some from reputable writers that I would not be able to name. Definitely at least one book on my book shelf has a sentence starting with 'but'.
Inverted commas are used to imply another meaning other than the meaning usually attached to what is inside those inverted commas. In the previous paragraph, this was not how I intended to use it but it was how it worked out. I intended just to make sure you did not read the 'but' as a part of my discourse around the subject of the word 'but'. This is making it mean some thing other than a 'but' used in discourse.
One thing I Iearnt from my most recent TMA guidance was that it didn't really matter what way you did things. What matters is that you are consistent. The guidance meant it in regards to referencing, and it offered two binaries of Oxford's or Cambridge's style of referencing. I took this liberally and I chose to make my own style of referencing, dropping things that I didn't see mattered. For example, I do not care to pick one location to add in the reference, after the publisher, of the OU textbook because some times there are a few locations listed all over the page in the book. I dropped the location for all of my references. You cannot say that I do not follow guidance. Maybe this is the same for use of the word 'but'.
Starting the sentence at the start with the word 'and' really wasn't much of a risk because the inverted commas made it okay.
'But' and 'And'
'And' was not the word I was going to start with but it is. I'm breaking rules I learnt from above. Apparently a comma should not come before a 'but' because the 'but' is a pause in itself. Just like you should not start a sentence with 'and', I believe we shouldn't really start sentences with 'but'. I've seen a few sentences start with 'but'. Some from reputable writers that I would not be able to name. Definitely at least one book on my book shelf has a sentence starting with 'but'.
Inverted commas are used to imply another meaning other than the meaning usually attached to what is inside those inverted commas. In the previous paragraph, this was not how I intended to use it but it was how it worked out. I intended just to make sure you did not read the 'but' as a part of my discourse around the subject of the word 'but'. This is making it mean some thing other than a 'but' used in discourse.
One thing I Iearnt from my most recent TMA guidance was that it didn't really matter what way you did things. What matters is that you are consistent. The guidance meant it in regards to referencing, and it offered two binaries of Oxford's or Cambridge's style of referencing. I took this liberally and I chose to make my own style of referencing, dropping things that I didn't see mattered. For example, I do not care to pick one location to add in the reference, after the publisher, of the OU textbook because some times there are a few locations listed all over the page in the book. I dropped the location for all of my references. You cannot say that I do not follow guidance. Maybe this is the same for use of the word 'but'.
Starting the sentence at the start with the word 'and' really wasn't much of a risk because the inverted commas made it okay.