In Universities^x, Punctuation^x, Colons^x

I won't do the whole letter, but I will do an edit of the first paragraph (including the salutation). Here's my edit. To The Selection Committee: I recently graduated from the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan with a ___degree in __ __. The past few years I have been working on different...

'I hate him so much, he killed my dog' is a comma splice .  This is considered bad punctuation; though many native speakers write like this without worrying about the fact that it's a comma splice.   You have to put in the subordinator 'as' or 'because' to join those...

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...