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By Joan Van Emden

This e-book is filled with useful recommendation and precious examples to assist scholars and engineers write basically, adequately and impressively. This up-to-date 3rd version deals assistance on spelling, grammar and punctuation, picking a suitable layout and utilizing it appropriately, proposing mathematical fabric basically, writing for e-book, and notably generating actual and readable textual content. it's an important relief for modern-day engineers.

Contents contain: Preface creation Vocabulary Sentences and Punctuation Paragraph and structure reliable sort The Presentation of Written details Writing for book The Presentation of Written details additional studying phrases and words mentioned within the textual content Index

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The sentence should read: The failure of the systems that we have installed recently has led to the current financial crisis. The word ‘each’, which is singular, can produce similar difficulties: Each of the systems which we have installed recently have given us initial problems. The subject of ‘have given’ is ‘each’, meaning ‘each one’, and the sentence should thus read: Each of the systems which we have installed recently has given us initial problems. ᭤ The subject and the verb must agree, both singular or both plural ᭤ Expressions to be used with care Expressions dealt with in this section It, which, such that/so that Two other dangerous subject words are ‘it’ and ‘which’.

Whatever should have been put in writing has actually been left out (‘the factors’ or some such expression), and the unfortunate word ‘modest’ has been dragged in to make the writer feel better. Modest by whose standards? Why should the company concerned stress that the rise was ‘justified’? What have the writer’s feelings and beliefs got to do with the situation? The use of ‘recent’ suggests the subtext ‘I should have done this sooner and am embarrassed to give the date’. It would have been better to come straight to the point: In the light of our meeting on 21 January, I confirm that we shall shortly raise our prices.

In the next sentence, the second ‘it’ means little more than ‘this’, and the sentence could be reorganised into a more concise form. The third sentence suffers from the same problems as the second. The passage could be rewritten as: We are not yet sure how to carry out this work. Using a cradle, as I suggested previously, would be difficult because of its instability. Given the scale of the work, this method would also be time consuming. ‘Which’ is similarly tricky: Manuals are mainly held in the print room, but some by individuals which are often unique.

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