The Life, the Universe, and Everything
Dear Girl # 6,
Thank you for being there for me. I appreciate both what you said and what you did yesterday. Despite the fact that I might make you as uncomfortable as everybody else you are the only one in our group who did not run away from me like from a poisonous snake. You [...]
Redundant Pairs
Many pairs of words imply each other. Finish implies complete, so completely finsish is redundant. So are many other pairs of words:
1. past memories
2. various differences
3. each individual
4. basic fundamentals
5. true facts
6. important essentials
7. future plans
8. sudden crisis
9. terrible tragedy
10. end result
11. final outcome
12. free gift
13. past history
14. unexpected surprise
Example: Before the travel agent [...]
Letters of Recommendation
Any of you who have been asked to produce a letter of recommendation might find yourselves wondering how to describe your subject’s less-than-sterling qualities.
Here are some phrases you might find useful.
It was given to me by Julian Craft, my instructor for ENGL 225 (Professional Writing) course at DeVry.
For an employee who is so [...]
A LA GUERRE COMME A LA GUERRE
What makes it so unique? … the fact that Remarque does not spoon-feed his reader page by page with ready-made attitudes, but leaves him to draw his own conclusions from the book.
from “Die Welt am Montag”
(quoted in Barker and Last, page 38)
Introduction
Erich Maria Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western [...]
And here comes analysis. That is where people always tell me to do it in traditional ways. Do as you are told to do things. But no, I do something else. That is my crime – doing things my way. The punishment varies. Julian Craft gave this report “A minus” and I received “A” for [...]
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