hi all,i am saby, i had asked earlier about getting a degree from excelsior in biology. i was not well for many days and am now back.thanks so much everyone for all the replies on that post and sorry due to ill health i did not post after that. after reading the replies i think many of u r right when u say a degree in bio entirely by testing out might not be such a good idea. i have looked at COSC and their health care administration or health studies concentration and feel that this might be more wide and easier compared to only biology. i am confused mainly bcoz firstly they want 9 credits to begin with and i also read somewhere about an admissions essay that is required there. i have 3 credits with clep natural sciences. if i take clep analyzing and interpreting literature will they give me 6 credits? how is this exam and how much study does it require? i plan to give it soon. i am still a bit confused bcoz i donno why ...since i was looking at excelsior all the time from the time i decided to do a DL degree and i actually wanted to go to them and not COSC. i guess both these colleges r equally good,aren't they? please reply thanks for all the help saby
Hi Saby: With all due respect, why do you punctuate and spell so strangely? Please do not do this on admissions essays. If you are new to English, please get in the habit of correct spelling--it's much easier to establish this in the beginning than to acquire it later on. If this is a stylistic affectation, drop it. J.
I took someone to task for this very thing in another thread. It's something alot of kids are doing -- stupidly, I might add -- in chat rooms and other places. They don't realize that while it may seem cute, it will make real people in the real world think they're just immature slackers. They don't realize, apparently, that it's not creative or hip to bastardize written English; and that it's far more difficult -- and, therefore, admirable -- to do it the right way. Moreover, they don't realize that when others read their writing that's correctly done -- others who value education and bothering to do things right or not at all -- they'll be thought of far more highly than if they intentionally try to come across like an immature, affected teenager who obviously wasn't raised, or educated, right. I know that if that sort of thing were "in" when I was a kid, my ol' man would have given me just one warning; but my mom would have thrown a fit! She never went to college -- er... well... wait a minute... I think maybe she did some hours in some kind of night school or something for a little while before marriage, now that I think about it -- but she valued proper speech, correct spelling, good grammar and bothering to do things right as if she had a degree in English. I hated her correcting me every time I turned around. I, too, thought it -- and she -- was stupid. But I was wrong. And she was right. And I thank her. Too bad so many of today's parents aren't as conscientious.
I am going to be a father soon, and I have been devouring the last months pretty much all literature regarding this. It turns out that the most deciding factor in the education of a child (I expect two, BTW) is the level of education of the mother. It seems that the father is pretty much irrelevant, but mothers have a tremendous influence on the child´s intellectual development. Of course, by education I don´t mean formal academic education. You know what I mean. And regarding the spelling of saby, it is probably just a trend brought by the masive use of email and SMS. (I read a couple of days a go that Hewlett Packard published a study with a surprising conclusion: using SMS and email frequently reduces the IQ twice than the use of marihuana does.
re JLV's last paragraph on e-mail & IQ Except for The Letter, this is the funniest and truest thing I've ever seen here. I laughed so hard my ears hurt.
Hi uncle janko,Des Elms and JLV for replying and pointing out my mistake so honestly. I am an Indian girl and although my medium of study was English,i know i have a long way to go in this area. like JLV pointed out i use a lot of `bcoz' and `donno' only because i got used to using them through chatting and emails. I don't read much and maybe doing that could help me with my english. i would appreciate if you give me some practical suggestions on how to improve my english. I feel a little left out sometimes in conversations here mainly because even though i do understand and know what to say,i usually have to frame the sentences well in my mind before using them. Thanks for the help Saby
When I was a kid and brought newsletters home from the PTA, my mother would correct any spelling and grammar mistakes in red ink and then make me give them back to the school.
Your English is far better than my skill in any other language and better than many college students I interact with every day. That said, the very best way to improve your writing skill is to write often. The best way to be required to do that is in a class. Using internet slang and shorthand has a place. Even so, it can lead to confusion and bad writing habits. I'd not go as far as to say the use of these colloquialisms is stupid, it is a fact that such usage often leads to changes in communication rules. What is important is to communicate in a way that the intended audience can clearly understand. If that audience is a young group in a chat room then use of bcoz and r may well be both appropriate and preferred. Some would say that proper usage is always preferred and they make a good argument. Then again, the ability to successfully interact with any particular group of people depends on our ability to communicate in the vernacular of that group and not in our ability to impress them with our grasp of grammar and usage. From what I see in your writing, capitalization rules is an area that could use some attention. You might also consider forming your paragraphs a little better. Don't use enter at the end of a line when using a computer unless a hard line break is what you intend, just let the sentence wrap.
You're better at this than you may realize, Saby. Your post, above, is actually quite good, save for a few very small things. Without changing a single bit of its content or structure or anything like that, here's how it would look if you simply observed rules of capitalization and paragraphing, etc.: Hi Uncle Janko, DesElms and JLV for replying and pointing out my mistake so honestly. I am an Indian girl and although my medium of study was English, I know I have a long way to go in this area. Like JLV pointed out, I use a lot of `bcoz' and `donno' only because I got used to using them through chatting and emails. I don't read much and maybe doing that could help me with my English. I would appreciate if you give me some practical suggestions on how to improve my English. I feel a little left out sometimes in conversations here mainly because even though I do understand and know what to say, I usually have to frame the sentences well in my mind before using them. Thanks for the help. Saby Look! By just repairing your capitalization and paragraphing, it's 1000% better! That, coupled with your already-good -- or at least basically good -- sentence structure, makes it a whole different post, doesn't it? Without the intentional everything-in-lowercase thing; and the use of text strings like "bcoz" instead of the word "because," or the letter "u" instead of the word "you," etc., your writing is just fine -- at least fine enough for this crazy place!
