Guidelines for Answering Factual Questions
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Assignment Writing – Coherence and Flow
Defining coherence and flow
When you have coherence in your assignment, it means that all the parts fit together well. Flow refers to the way that the words and ideas making up the different parts of your assignment, are linked together. Therefore, when you have coherence and flow in your assignment, you move in a logical order or sequence from one topic or idea to another, starting with the argument in the introduction and developing it in each subsequent section until you reach your conclusion. (more…)
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Just how important is good grammar? – Gabrielle Goodwin
In this recent decision, the court considered the placement of a comma in a settlement agreement.
Erie Boulevard Hydropower v. State of New York
From the settlement agreement:
The intent and purpose of the agreement being so to operate the Hinckley State Reservior [sic] that, after serving the canal uses and purposes, of the State, it may so far as practicable, be fully used for the storage of water and the regulations of the flow of West Canada Creek below the same for the benefit of the power property and riparian lands of [claimant] on West Canada Creek below the Hinckley State Reservior [sic]. Provided, [h]owever, that during periods of extradordinary [sic] or unusual drought, flood or emergency caused by the temporary failure of other sources of water supply for the canal use, . . . the Superintendent of Public Works or other officer . . ., without the payment of any damages to [claimant], . . . may temporarily vary or entirely suspend the operation of th[e] said dam and reservior [sic] as described and laid down in the operating diagram aforesaid during the periods of such extraordinary or unusual drought, flood or emergency caused by the temporary failure of other sources of [water] supply for the canal use . . . . (more…)
MUST READ: The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing …
Steven Pinker – The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
Steven Pinker is one of the world’s leading authorities on language and the mind. His popular and highly praised books include The Stuff of Thought, The Blank Slate, Words and Rules, How the Mind Works, and The Language Instinct. The recipient of several major awards for his teaching, books, and scientific research, Pinker is Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He also writes frequently for The New York Times, Time, The New Republic, and other magazines – Amazon.com (more…)