If you are a member of the AGU (American Geophysical Union), you probably have heard about or published in GRL (Geophysical Research Letters) . Recently, I heard complaints from colleagues about how their manuscripts are returned without being reviewed . I was surp ...
Based on P.T. OConners Woe is I (Seemy blog: Introducing a FUN and USEFUL book on English writing: Woe is I ) Note: If you see I am copying a sentence word-by-word from the book, dont take me to court! ...
Advice and Information These are the words that you should not add icing (s) to. So, no advices and no informations, please. This is free advice for my friends, and free information for anyone else who happens by my Bl ...
Based on P.T. O’Conner’s Woe is I Chapter 1: Therapy for Pronoun Anxiety Object Lessons The me generation There days, we don’t say “It’s I ” any more. Why? Because language is a living thing, always evolving ...
Based on P.T. O’Conner’s Woe is I (Seemy Blog: Introducing a FUN and USEFUL book on English writing: Woe is I http://blog.sciencenet.cn/home.php?mod=spaceuid=306792do=blogid=350432 ) ...
Based on P.T. OConners Woe is I (See my blog: Introducing a FUN and USEFUL book on English writing: Woe is I ) Chapter 11: E-mail Intuition One thing good about th ...
I write English daily, and edit English almost daily, but I don't know enough about English and will never do. So, how do I manage it? I learn, every day. One tool I use often is Microsoft Word Thesaurus (see my Blog on how to use it at http://www.sc ...
In the ribbon of a Word file (2007 Edition) , which starts from Home and ends with View, the last but one is Review. Click that, and you will see Thesaurus in the middle of the 2nd column. Use it often, NOT to search for a f ...
You should read this book, if you care about writing English well. How did I discover this book? Thanks to my son, to the courses he will take in the upcoming (high) school (senior) year. I needed a book to kill my time, and this book ca ...
Ok, I didn't come up with these tips myself, but I worked on them: to reduce the number from 70 to 6+6 for you, based on my own experience and common sense. If you prefer to go over the 70 ways yourself, here is the link: 70 ways to im ...