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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>ESL Essay, Writing World</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/EslEssayWritingWorld/Forum9.htm</link><description>Post your essay, short story or composition here. Review, comment or just read for fun.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CSMOD (Build: 3260.39585)</generator><item><title>Re: Can you give me some suggestions about posted writing?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/GiveSuggestionsAboutPostedWriting/mqbc/post.htm#63599</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:17:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:63599</guid><dc:creator>Tracy</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/GiveSuggestionsAboutPostedWriting/mqbc/post.htm#63599</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments9-63599.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>thanks very much</description></item><item><title>Re: Can you give me some suggestions about posted writing?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/GiveSuggestionsAboutPostedWriting/mppg/post.htm#63552</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:14:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:63552</guid><dc:creator>julielai</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/GiveSuggestionsAboutPostedWriting/mppg/post.htm#63552</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments9-63552.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Are you writing a review? If so, please include detailed bibliographic information. e.g.&lt;br /&gt;title:&lt;br /&gt;Editor:&lt;br /&gt;Price:&lt;br /&gt;etc etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Longman Active Study English&amp;#151;Chinese Dictionary (Second&lt;br /&gt;Edition) is a good dictionary &lt;u&gt;for &lt;/u&gt;the Intermediate English&lt;br /&gt;learners. It aims at helping them to consolidate their English&lt;br /&gt;foundations &lt;u&gt;ulteriorly &lt;/u&gt;(wrong choice of word) and have&lt;br /&gt;deeper understandings about this language from every aspect, then&lt;br /&gt;enhancing their abilities of learning and using English. &lt;br /&gt;Comparing with other dictionaries of the same kind, this &lt;u&gt;dictionary&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;shows &lt;u&gt;the following &lt;/u&gt;features: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;On the one hand, the content contained is very rich. &lt;/u&gt;(The&lt;br /&gt;whole sentence doesn't add anything to your writing)&lt;br /&gt;There are more than 45,000 entries and 55,000 sample sentences. &lt;u&gt;Among&lt;br /&gt;which,&lt;/u&gt; (delete - shouldn't be used at the beginning of a&lt;br /&gt;sentence) The &lt;u&gt;dictionary embodies &lt;/u&gt;(incorporates) about&lt;br /&gt;2000 new words &lt;u&gt;created in the 21st century &lt;/u&gt;(redundant,&lt;br /&gt;implied in &amp;quot;new&amp;quot;) to &lt;u&gt;help us &lt;/u&gt;keep up with &lt;u&gt;the&lt;br /&gt;development of &lt;/u&gt;(redundant) our time. &lt;br /&gt;Moreover, because &lt;u&gt;the &lt;/u&gt;(delete) language teaching and&lt;br /&gt;learning focus more and more on &lt;u&gt;the training of &lt;/u&gt;(delete)&lt;br /&gt;communicati&lt;u&gt;ve &lt;/u&gt;ability, this dictionary offers &lt;u&gt;many&lt;br /&gt;materials &lt;/u&gt;(be specific) of oral English as well, which can&lt;br /&gt;help users improve their &lt;u&gt;language social &lt;/u&gt;(doesn't make&lt;br /&gt;sense) ability. &lt;br /&gt;Besides &lt;u&gt;(words deleted)&lt;/u&gt;, it also provides other&lt;br /&gt;information, such as the usages and useful pattern of words,&lt;br /&gt;study notes, colored illustrations and six appendices of applied&lt;br /&gt;English knowledge which include word building, geographical&lt;br /&gt;names, list of irregular verbs , and so &lt;u&gt;the &lt;/u&gt;(delete)&lt;br /&gt;forth. &lt;br /&gt;On the other hand (&lt;u&gt;wrong transition)&lt;/u&gt;, this dictionary has&lt;br /&gt;its particular ways of showing &lt;u&gt;word &lt;/u&gt;definitions. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Firstly, this dictionary gives brief definitions of &lt;u&gt;the most&lt;br /&gt;commonly used 2000 words&lt;/u&gt;, which is called the Longman&lt;br /&gt;Defining Vocabulary. Furthermore, this dictionary uses the sample&lt;br /&gt;sentences that are not only simple enough but also closely linked&lt;br /&gt;with our daily life to support the paraphrases and makes them&lt;br /&gt;more understandable and acceptable.&lt;br /&gt;Secondly, there are so many meanings of one word, how to arrange&lt;br /&gt;them seems to be a headache for the compliers. This dictionary&lt;br /&gt;arranges the &lt;u&gt;word &lt;/u&gt;definitions according &lt;u&gt;to &lt;/u&gt;appearance&lt;br /&gt;frequency of words in Longman&amp;#146;s data-base. The users can&lt;br /&gt;compare and select the words that can express their meaning&lt;br /&gt;correctly by the information offered. (don't know what you mean)&lt;br /&gt;What&amp;#146;s more, it also use (&lt;u&gt;agreement) &lt;/u&gt;one to three &lt;u&gt;asterisk&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;to mark the words which are among the 1000&amp;#151;3000 most&lt;br /&gt;general words, such as, &amp;#147;**anxious&amp;#148; belongs to the 2001&amp;#151;3000&lt;br /&gt;most general words while &amp;#147;*apart&amp;#148; belongs to the 1000&lt;br /&gt;most general words. This ensures the accurate use of word &lt;u&gt;without&lt;br /&gt;fail&lt;/u&gt; (awkward). &lt;br /&gt;On all accounts, Longman Active Study English&amp;#151;Chinese&lt;br /&gt;Dictionary (Second Edition) objectively and roundly reflects the&lt;br /&gt;characteristics of modern English from the aspects of compiling&lt;br /&gt;and arranging definitions, selecting good sample sentences,&lt;br /&gt;describing the usage &amp;#133; &lt;u&gt;to ???? (from ... to ...)&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Readers will regard it as a &lt;u&gt;useful reference tool &lt;/u&gt;in their&lt;br /&gt;English learning</description></item><item><title>Can you give me some suggestions about posted writing?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/GiveSuggestionsAboutPostedWriting/mpmb/post.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2004 14:35:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:63496</guid><dc:creator>Tracy</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/GiveSuggestionsAboutPostedWriting/mpmb/post.htm</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments9-63496.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Longman Active Study EnglishâChinese Dictionary (Second Edition) is a good dictionary which applies to the Intermediate English learners.  It aims at helping them to consolidate their English foundations ulteriorly and have deeper understandings about this language from every aspect, then enhancing their abilities of learning and using English.&lt;br /&gt;Comparing with other dictionaries of the same kind, this one shows its own features as following:&lt;br /&gt;On the one hand, the content contained is very rich.&lt;br /&gt;There are more than 45,000 entries and 55,000 sample sentences.  Among which, it embodies about 2000 new words created in the 21st century to keep up with the development of our time.&lt;br /&gt;Moreover, because the language teaching and learning focus more and more on the training of communication ability, this dictionary offers many materials of oral English as well, which can help users improve their language social ability.&lt;br /&gt;Besides those above, it also provides other information, such as the usages and useful pattern of words, study notes, colored illustrations and six appendices of applied English knowledge which include word building, geographical names, list of irregular verbs , and so the forth.&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand, this dictionary has its particular ways of showing the wordsâ definitions.&lt;br /&gt;Firstly, this dictionary gives brief definitions of words by 2000 words in common use, which is called the Longman Defining Vocabulary.  Furthermore, this dictionary uses the sample sentences that are not only simple enough but also closely linked with our daily life to support the paraphrases and makes them more understandable and acceptable.&lt;br /&gt;Secondly, there are so many meanings of one word, how to arrange them seems to be a headache for the compliers.  This dictionary arranges the wordsâ definitions according the information of the appearance frequency of words in Longmanâs data-base.  The users can compare and select the words that can express their meaning correctly by the information offered.  &lt;br /&gt;Whatâs more, it also use one to three signs of * to mark the words which are among the 1000â3000 most general words, such as, â**anxiousâ belongs to the 2001â3000 most general words while â*apartâ belongs to the 1000 most general words.  This ensures the accurate use of word without fail.&lt;br /&gt;On all accounts, Longman Active Study EnglishâChinese Dictionary (Second Edition) objectively and roundly reflects the characteristics of modern English from the aspects of compiling and arranging definitions, selecting good sample sentences, describing the usage â¦ &lt;br /&gt;Readers will regard it as a beneficial friend in their English learning.&lt;br /&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>