I have a presentation on Thursday for a grammar class. I am a legal student, with some skills in the arena of grammar. (Skill...singular...or skills, plural????!) LOL.
In any event, I need to make a presentation. Please make any suggestions!
The students will consist of primarily legal assistants and medical assistants. The objective of the presentation is to help them develop better writing skills, as well as speaking skills.
Thanks! : )
2006-06-19 02:05:55 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
No, I don't want anyone to write the presentation!!!! I will do it myself, thank you so much.
Okay- sorry about the grammatical error "...will consist of primarily legal assistants...".
I think it should have read "will primarily consist of legal assistants.." (Correct me if that is incorrect).
Thank you for the posts thus far.
2006-06-19 02:27:35 · update #1
Speaking skills are very different from writing skills. And your solecism ("consist of primarily legal assistants") does not give one confidence in your grammatical skills.
Neither lawyers nor doctors, especially the younger ones, have much in the way of grammatical skills. The problem lawyers encounter with doctors, and vice versa, is that doctors tend to write in "objective medicalese" while lawyers write in "advocacy legalese."
This is one reason why so many applications for disability are denied. The doctor's documents are full of "is consistent with, "may be due to," "indications of," etc. The lawyer is saying "cannot," "is caused by," "unable to work," etc.
2006-06-19 02:15:50 · answer #1 · answered by thylawyer 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
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2006-06-19 09:12:04 · answer #2 · answered by Bolan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um.....perhaps mention the importance of the correct usage of homonyms....!!!! also!!!! you should go over the use of "whom", which is becoming completely lost in today's English (it's in the dative case, btw). Also, small things will make them sound way smarter. Like ask instead of aks, especially instead of ekspecially, etc. Oh, and that it's et cetera, not ed cedera, not etcetera, ET CETERA. And it's abbr. etc. NOT ect. ETC.
...also other things you learn in any foreign language class. Like one-word vs. two word past, and the importance of irregular verbs. For Example: I drank vs. I have drunk. Not I drunk. Not I have drank. And maybe you could do a breif review of irregular verbs in the English language. e.g.: I'm meeting her today. / Yesterday I met her. NOT Yesterday I meeted her. Etc.
But things like that. Meet/met/have met, swim/swam/have swum, eat/ate/have eaten.
And PLEASE discourage the use of the double contraction!!! e.g., I'll've already done that INSTEAD of the CORRECT I will have already done that.
Perhaps you should make a brief sojourn into the world of semicolons; but perhaps your presentation will be too long for that.
Anyway (NOT anywayS), thanks for letting me vent!
2006-06-19 09:17:56 · answer #3 · answered by daisyprincess78 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tell us what your real question is: is it to give a subject for your possible presentation or wanting someone to write the presentation for you?
2006-06-19 09:12:05 · answer #4 · answered by Gabe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please ensure that you double check your citations. Nothing more embarassing when you don't use the Blue Book or ALWD manual correctly.
2006-06-19 09:10:31 · answer #5 · answered by Amanda M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe you can do all of thoes and you can get better grades and more points.
2006-06-19 09:09:43 · answer #6 · answered by Stormie k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋