Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Avoid Primer Style

Avoid primer style. Primer style is short. Primer style is boring. Primer style is tedious. Primer style is choppy. So avoid it.
Avoid using primer style writing by joining sentences and refraining from the use of to-be verbs. Nobody wants to look like they are a second grader in their writing, and no one really creates a whole essay that way, but some of my own paragraphs may use this primer style to trudge through facts and details that could otherwise stand illustrious. See here.

Presentation


I will focus on the delivery of the presentation. Specifically I will focus on avoiding slouching, focus on eye contact with every member of the audience, and focus on varying the pitch of my voice when I speak. An oral report may take many hours of research to prepare. When presented poorly it loses so much. Almost as important as material in a presentation is the presenting itself.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Heart Disease


Heart Disease huh? I hear it is not good for you at all. It ranks numero uno for killing us people, it has not taken me yet, but it might some day. I thought that the leading cause of death would be birth, hm. An article that I found notes that old people tend to get these death diseases. If they were categorized into larger groups cancer would be number one. Heart disease is connected to other diseases in the pull to bring us down. Maybe we could do our thing on what the leading cause of death is for people who have an autopsy done, but that would be impossible information to find. Watch out for heart disease team, it will get you faster then lead poisoning.

Verb!




Run! No no no, do not run, just verb. I was less confused about verbs before I studied them. If you would like to be confused too you should find out what a gerund is, and a present participle. That is when the -ing is added to a verb. I think it makes immediate past seem more immediate. Can I be grammaring? No. But I can be eating, breathing, coughing and choking. Choking on the sandwich I was eating I began coughing and couldn't continue breathing. The trick is when to use -ed or -ing. I stopped using -ed when finding that it helped me with my grammaring. Uh...