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Precisely puzzled
23 July 07 11:57 AM | wayne.griffiths | 2 Comments   
Here's a slightly funny written comment from my supervisor I thought I'd share. A lot of their comments lately have been about choice of words and not sounding formal enough with my language. Their first language is not English, but they are not happy Read More...
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To Be or Not To Be...
16 January 07 11:01 AM | wayne.griffiths | 2 Comments   
...there is now not a question. It's not to be. Let me explain. This is my latest gripe about the writing style of my supervisors, which hence affects what writing style I'm allowed to have in my thesis. Apparently, I'm not allowed to use any conjugation Read More...
Grammatical Grumbling
27 November 06 01:45 PM | wayne.griffiths | 13 Comments   
I received the comments back from my supervisor the other day on one of my chapter drafts. Most of them were easy to deal with. They were mainly to do with choice of words, e.g. he would say not to use "obviously" because if it was obvious, there would Read More...
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