Textspeak

Click here for the Guardian article on text message poetry, or simply enjoy the beauty of David Crystal on It's Only A Theory:

Precise Expressions

Two online resources we looked at in today's session:

Manchester Academic Phrasebank
Oxford Collocations Dictionary

For those of you with technical queries about using MS Word, there are plenty of online tutorial videos available.  Search for MS Word footnotes or double spacing on Youtube and then choose a narrator whose voice doesn't send you to sleep...

I'm not sure if the following meetings the criteria set out above:

How to Create a Bibliography in Microsoft Word -- powered by ehow

Clarity

Can you rewrite the sentences below in order to remove any possible ambiguity:

1. The burglar was about 30 years old, white, 5' 10", with wavy hair weighing about 150 pounds.

2. The family lawyer will read the will tomorrow at the residence of Mr. Hannon, who died June 19 to accommodate his relatives.

3. Mrs. Shirley Baxter, who went deer hunting with her husband, is very proud that she was able to shoot a fine buck as well as her husband.

4. We spent most of our time sitting on the back porch watching the cows playing Scrabble and reading.

5. Hunting can also be dangerous, as in the case of pygmies hunting elephants armed only with spears.

Hits from the Blog

For anyone struggling for blog inspiration, or for anyone brave enough to start reading other students' blogs and leaving comments (go on, you know you want to), the four blogs linked to below are all interesting and successful (so far) for different reasons.  Please have a browse and leave some nice feedback for these very praiseworthy writers:

http://sjmackiewritingskillsblog.blogspot.com/
http://alex-writingskills.blogspot.com/
http://jtrolljagarn.blogspot.com/
http://avaswritingexperience.blogspot.com/

Meanwhile, a £1 record token goes to anyone who can identify the reference in the title of this blog post. Anyone?