Essays on Comma

Introduction

This generation, unlike the previous ones is experiencing a lot of sudden encounters that have been contributed to by various factors, including industrialization and globalization, which are associated with numerous problems including economic catastrophes among others. This means that they have to find out ways of coping with these new happenings so as to survive and fulfill their desires. It is in this case that the necessity for guidance and assistance arises. In the old generation, people lived in a closed society where few individuals were entitled with the responsibility of ensuring order and set morals were followed. The ...

Since the paper format was in MLA, and I had used APA referencing style, I had to change the first sentence on page one of the article. MLA uses the author and the page number (if available in the incitation). Besides, I had used the word ‘adult” in its plural form while it should have been in the singular. I had also used a redundant word “people” in the second sentence. In line four, I had used the wrong capitalization, type 2 diabetes is a common noun, and therefore, there was no need for capitalization. Moreover, I had not ...

Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summaries For any business professional to succeed and become a competent and successful professional, he must possess good communication skills. Communication skills such as written communication, oral communication, and interpersonal communication are necessary to survive in today’s competitive era. The same fact also stands true for accounting professionals. According to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), communication skills are and will remain in future as important a skill as any other professional skill. AICPA lists “effective business writing” as a necessary skill for competence in public accounting. Unfortunately, some of the entry level accountants do ...

Business Communication

Incident reports are a common phenomenon in the insurance industry, especially when lodging claims in cases of employees’ injury or property damage resulting from any natural cause. Often, an incident report will consist of three paragraphs, written in the form of memos. The following are the steps to consider when writing the report:

- Start with the name or designation of the individual to whom the report is being sent. The incident report often starts with the person to receive it as a matter of priority. It may be the Supervisor or another senior staff in an insurance company. As a matter ...

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You use “Created to” twice really close together. This is repetitive, by using a synonym to replace one of these you will increase both interest and elegance.

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This starts with a conjunction. Ideally restructure the sentence so that it does not start with “But” or at the very least, set it off with a comma.

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You use the word “Intangible” which means imperceptible or insignificant. I would say “tangible” is a better word choice here.

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Early in the paragraph you use “human-to-human” with hyphens, however in the 6th sentence you present the same phrase without hyphens. I think either way is fine, but ...

The TV series Crime Scene Investigation has for some time been one of the viral and most watched series in the world. With its combination of both reality and fiction, much attention is gained from the viewers who criticize and at the same time big up the captivating work of executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer alongside Anthony E. Zuicker, Ann Donahue and Carol Mendelsohn. CSI is a series depicting the crimes (especially murders and kidnappings) committed in most, if not all of the cities around the continent. Moreover, it shows how these crimes are solved to find the unknown truths and ...

Dear Professor [insert name],

On Project 1 Before I stepped in your class, I had usually perceived writing as a difficult task that takes a lot of time. This short and yet a powerful statement, too, had resonated in the minds of most of my classmates that I started to study this course together. However, it has just been a matter of ten weeks, and my writing skills have improved very drastically, courtesy of this class. Thanks to a lot of time I dedicated in writing, revising, seeking professor’s reviews and polishing my works to come up with more superior contents about the given topic. My ...

Essay 1: CUTS FOR BAIL

(1)In the past decade, college tuition has risen three times as fast as the consumer-price index and twice as fast as medical care. One of the most important factors driving price at public colleges and universities has been the decline in state support for higher education. With rising tuition and declining state financing, students and families are assuming a growing share of college costs. Tuition revenues now make up about half of public university revenues. And with colleges facing larger pensions, health care and technology costs, the pressure to keep(2) raising tuition is intense. Critics of higher ...

Introduction

It is rightly said that English is not just a funny language, but also a vastly tricky language. In each word or sentence, it has its own meaning and significance in its own ways. To understand this fact, the two sentences “Let’s eat, mummy” and “Let’s eat mummy,” there is a presence of comma as punctuation that creates a huge difference in the meaning. Believe it or not, it is only the little comma that can make the difference. In the given sentences, on the one hand, the first sentence implies asking mummy to eat, whereas, on the other hand, the ...

This paper aims at providing a comprehensive and an analytical interview between the author and the ESOL student. It will discuss the steps and the strategies that are associated with the learning of language. This report paper shall contain a summary of the interview, discussion of the relevant theories and how they apply. The paper will also contain an interview journal. The paper shall be organized as follows: introduction, subject/ context of the interview, hypothesis, method, findings, discussion and finally conclusion.

Introduction

Just to begin with, I would like to emphasize that in this discussion, I am interested in determining the academic ...

Death is a certain phenomenon of life. Everyone who arrives in this world has to die ultimately; however, the date, time and manner of death of each and every person is not defined and hence, it would be wise to make the time as much advantageous as possible. Moreover, the advancements in technology have made the life span longer than of those from the past. Today, medical science has been evolved from typical classical approaches towards a better and more scientific means of equipments and descriptions. Treatments of severe diseases like cancer and tumors is possible today and thus many lives can ...

While taking writing class that requires a paper, errors emerge. However, it is a learning opportunity to be able to identify the errors by oneself just so it is a learning process when the student can be able to identify the mistakes and seek a solution for them. While identifying the errors, it is advisable to classify them under grammatical mistakes and rank them in different categories. The learner should be able to each issue and styles that constitutes the grammatical errors. For instance, arrangement of words influences the sentence stricture that either make the sentence too long to comprehend or senseless ...

English

Today, we live in an era characterised by the written word. Be it surfing videos on YouTube or getting invitees for social functions, the written word is everywhere and so is grammar. Grammar has undoubtedly become an indispensable tool for day to day communication. For some of us, it takes the error indicating ‘grammer’ to realise that it is actually ‘grammar’! Now when grammar is such a crucial issue, how can business and technical writing remain untouched by its impact? Many employers use grammar as their ‘litmus test’. There are often candidates who confuse ‘too’ with ‘to’ or ‘ ...

1. Split infinitives – interrupting an infinitive by putting in an adverb; split infinitives are not advisable in formal situations, but encouraged in informal ones. a. Correct: Our profits are about to more than triple in the coming year. b. Incorrect: To quickly drive to the auditorium, we need to take a shortcut. 2. Personal relative pronoun – A personal relative pronoun can be useful when needing to refer back to a person who was mentioned earlier in the sentence in reference to an action. a. Correct: I am writing this to the person for whom I am holding ...