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Entries for September 2006

Take two sentences you like - put them together - bonus!

1 comments Contributed by David Mansfield on 24 September 2006 at 20:34

Dave Mansfield is a bad tutor. He doesn't fix my spelling or grammar. He doesn't even write on my paper. I don't know what he wants me to do.

This is not a well-written paragraph. Why not? Before you jump in with "Because this student clearly does not understand minimalist tutoring" or "cuz dave rox!!1!", I will state that I wish to confine this post only to issues of style, not content.

No, the problem with the passage above, stylistically, is sentence structure.

Your Thesis can Smell your Fear

2 comments Contributed by Christopher Williams on 17 September 2006 at 23:24

So. Thesis writing is hard. It is, in fact, so difficult that I spent a half-hour staring at my keyboard trying to start this blog entry. This post doesn't even have a real thesis! So no one can blame you if you have trouble writing a thesis. But we may be able to help.

"Things you should have learned in high school, had you been paying attention," but probably shouldn't have.

1 comments Contributed by Christopher Williams on 10 September 2006 at 22:25 Read more »