Sunday, December 18, 2011
American vs. British English
Here you can find a list of the main differences between American and British English. (Source: English Grammar in Use: Intermediate by Raymond Murphy)
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Journalistic Titles
Here you can find a brief explanation on journalistic titles used in, e.g., newspaper headlines. We, however, should not use this style for our titles in administrative writing, unless it is a press release. How would you change the headlines provided as examples in the hot-linked document into administrative style titles?
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Notes/Memos
Monday, December 5, 2011
Collocate dictionary
Here you can find an online collocate dictionary. There you have the option of comparing collocations in Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), Time Magazine Corpus (TIME), British National Corpus (BNC) and Google.
Mandatory, obligatory and compulsory
These words can indeed be used as synonyms in most contexts. I also like the first response in the forum at the following link:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080507075259AAR2USG
Here is a link for another forum which can be useful, as well:
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/2902/mandatory-obligatory-compulsory
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080507075259AAR2USG
Here is a link for another forum which can be useful, as well:
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/2902/mandatory-obligatory-compulsory
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