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Hi Collegebound, Welcome to the forums. Overall, you have a good essay. Stop worrying about your paragraphs. However, I 'm not sure what the topic was that Wisconsin asked for. Where did you put it? As vice president of my Catholic school’s multi-cultural student union, I have learned, first...

Hi, After a fake academic degree scandal of Ms.Shin, a former professor at Dongguk University, is exposed, a continual coming out of celebrities’ ‘fake degree’ is following like domino effect : Ms.Yun’s confession that she hasn’t attended Ewha Univ. is also one of the case. 1) Does 'scandal'...

After a fake academic degree scandal of Ms.Shin, a former professor at Dongguk University, is exposed, a continual coming out of celebrities’ ‘fake degree’ is following like domino effect : Ms.Yun’s confession that she hasn’t attended Ewha Univ. is also one of the case. 1) Does 'scandal'...

Mimoi2 wrote:Does anyone have any suggestions for this motivation letter? Anything would be really appreciated! Name Address1 Address2 Phone Date To Whom It May Concern: I would put a comma after the Concern rather than the semi-colon. With this letter I would like to express...

corrections in bold and other areas you need to look at are highlighted for you. Watch out for the length of your sentences. You tend to run on and try to connect too many ideas and are not using enough commas. Dear Sir or Madam (US uses colon, UK uses comma or nothing after salutation) This...

Thanks Barbara, I seached for "comma splice" on the Internet after I saw your reply and consulted a book on punctuation (By Oxford University Press). What I understood is "comma splice" is a common error that most of the people often make. The book said "It's not normally correct to join the...

Art2 wrote:I am unsure if this sentence is using semicolons properly. Any tips you can give me would be appreciated.While at University, my major was computer science. I am familiar with the software development process; from requirements gathering, through design, implementation, testing,...

I am unsure if this sentence is using semicolons properly. Any tips you can give me would be appreciated.While at University, my major was computer science. I am familiar with the software development process; from requirements gathering, through design, implementation, testing, documentation,...

Here's a starter: http://grammar.uoregon.edu/conjunctions/conjunctive.html And: Conjunctive Adverbs You can use a conjunctive adverb to join two clauses together. Some of the most common conjunctive adverbs are "also," "consequently," "finally," "furthermore," "hence," "however,"...

See what you think of these revisions, Andrea Co. (Reminder: type two spaces after a period and after a colon.) I am writing to express my great interest in applying for the preparatory PhD program in the X Institute in Berlin. I studied microbiology, from 1997-2002, at the University of R in...