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- Business Pros Fail Basic Grammar
- The Find: 85 percent of written correspondence among adults and business professionals contains grammatical errors. The Source: An analysis of more than 5,000 pieces of business and other writing from software firm WhiteSmoke Inc. The Takeaway: WhiteSmoke makes grammar checking software, so...
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- References.(A Stochastic Grammar of Images)(Bibliography)
- [1] S. P. Abney, "Stochastic attribute-value grammars," Computational Linguistics, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 597-618, 1997. [2] K. Athreya and A. Vidyashankar, Branching Processes. Springer-Verlag, 1972. [3] A. Barbu and S. C. Zhu, "Generalizing Swendsen-Wang to sampling arbitrary posterior probabilities," IEEE...
- Research articles 2006-10-01
- You're stylin' now: there's no need to reinvent the wheel when you follow an established style guide, but do make it your own
- Everyone has style. Whether your tastes run toward jeans and vintage rock-and-roll T-shirts or Armani suits and Manolo Blahnik high heels, you've probably put some time into figuring out what works for you. At home, too, you've likely created your own personal look--comfy sofas and overstuffed chairs, perhaps, or sleek,...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- Knowledge gap drains firms
- MARTIN Cooper speaks from two perspectives when he indicts the lack of qualified workers in the Valley. In addition to serving as the Valley Industry and Commerce Association's chairman, Cooper has also worked for the past 23 years as the chairman of his own company--a public relations and marketing firm,...
- Research articles 2005-01-17
- Business Writing With Style
- Does your company have formal writing guidelines? Many companies do, just so everyone knows it's "e-mail" not "email," or vice versa. But what about general writing advice? Most companies leave you to your own devices when it comes to punctuation and grammar. Writing guru Dan Santow's Word Wise blog always...
- Blog posts 2007-03-19
- Rugby Union: Hawks get their Grammar wrong
- GLASGOW Hawks' hopes of marking their BT title triumph with an unbeaten season were wrecked by Aberdeen's 37-21 win. Keith Oddie edged the home side in front before tries by Mike Adamson and Fergus Thompson - goaled by Mike Rainey - put Hawks in control. ...
- Research articles 2004-04-25
- Grammar of the Mexican Language, With an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645).(Book Review)
- Grammar of the Mexican Language, With an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645). HORACIO CAROCHI, S.J. Translated and edited with commentary by JAMES LOCKHART. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 2001. xxii + 516 pp., bibliography, analytical index. $65.00 cloth. Nahuatl as Written: Lessons...
- Research articles 2003-03-01
- Cultural thinking and discourse organizational patterns influencing writing skills in a Chinese English-as-a-foreign language (EFL) learner
- Abstract Writing patterns of a Chinese English-as-a-foreign-language EFL learner were analyzed as a case study from linguistic, pragmatic, and psycholinguistic perspectives. Alternative assessments were used by American pre-service teachers and a Taiwanese EFL instructor for rating linguistic developmental problems referring to format, style, syntax, and grammar. In addition, researchers conducted...
- Research articles 2001-10-01
- Second-language Studies and College-level Chinese-language Textbooks in the United States.(Bibliography)
- The interface between research and practice in foreign-language teaching has been a slippery slope. Studies in second-language acquisition SLA as often as not use a scientific, positivist methodology, first positing hypotheses and then testing for them by using experiments that, in order to target specific criteria,...
- Research articles 2001-03-22
- League placing speaks volumes for improved Grammar
- IT would be the ultimate irony, if not a seismic shift on the richter scale of the North East's sporting landscape. Should the current trend continue for the dismal Dons, the only Premier club in the Granite City could be situated at Rubislaw, where a steep upward curve has promotion...
- Research articles 2000-01-09
- Dr. Memory's Learnin' Lab Scheduled for Early 1999 Internet Debut
- TEMPLETON, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 21, 1998--Jerry Lucas, president of Lucas Educational Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:LEDS), Wednesday announced plans to launch a detailed teaching Web site in early 1999. The Web site, Dr. Memory'sTM Learnin' Lab, will teach a variety of subject matter including Spanish vocabulary and basic Spanish grammar, English vocabulary,...
- Research articles 1998-10-21
- SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY: Internationally known SFU linguist passes away.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-26 August 1998-SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY: Internationally known SFU linguist passes away C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:240898 * West Vancouver resident for 30 years One of Simon Fraser University's most distinguished scholars - Geoffrey Bursill-Hall - passed away...
- Research articles 1998-08-26
- Keeping English correct - usage of English language
- In the early years of this century there was some discussion about setting up an 'English Institute'. This was to be modelled on France's Institute Francaise and was to be given the power to pronounce on the use of English by English-speakers, at least in the United Kingdom and the...
- Research articles 1997-05-01
- Eschew obfuscation! (importance of good writing & communication skills) (column)
- Eschew Obfuscation! Three hundred years ago Francis Bacon observed that "reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." This is no less true today than it was three centuries ago. However, in this information age most of us receive our...
- Research articles 1990-01-01
- Philips launches SpeechPearl 8.0 speech recognition engine. (Speech Recognition).(Brief Article)
- SpeechPearl 8.0 is the successor to Philips' telephony speech engine, SpeechPearl 2000, containing new functionality to ease application development and integration, increase accuracy and improve application usability. SpeechPearl enables IVR SpeechPearl 8.0 is the successor to Philips' telephony...
- Research articles 2002-09-01
- Find A Job
- Before you hand in a resume to a prospective employer, check it carefully at least three times to look for grammar and spelling errors as well as typos. Being nervous can make you perform poorly in an interview; even to the extent of forgetting the questions you have been asked...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Credibility: 15 Facets To Speaking Professionalism: #4 - Grammar
- The best approach when you are grasping for words or concepts is silence. It's never as long as you think it is, and it almost always makes you look thoughtful and ponderous. It will often work in your favor, underlining the point you have just made. Your use of grammar...
- White papers 2007-01-17
- Grammar Gremlins Infest
- Good writing is a powerful tool. It can make the message stand out from the mass of material that competes for attention every day. And the messages do compete for attention. The problem with much writing today, however, is that it is infested with Grammar Gremlins — those roaches that...
- White papers 2003-01-01
Additional Resources
- LaSalle Brands Corporation Enters into a $50,000,000 Funding Agreement with Grammar Capital LLP
- SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- LaSalle Brands Corporation (OTC: LSAL) is pleased to announce that they have entered into a Funding Agreement with Grammar Capital LLP. As per the agreement, Grammar Capital will assist the Company in raising approximately $50,000,000 through a combination of equity and debt financing. The funds will be...
- Research articles 2007-11-28
- Fleming skill helps make Grammar word perfect
- Aberdeen GSFP IT'S an old Kiwi adage that it's the little things that matter. It is the credo that made the All Blacks the benchmark in the modern game, and it's one that is in serious danger of establishing Aberdeen Grammar as one of the top clubs...
- Research articles 2001-03-25
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