DOUGLAS COLLEG:

TO:

ALL FACULTY

FROM: THE LANGUAGE COMPETENCY GROUP

INTER OFFICE MEMO

DATE:

Rules of the wrote

Each pronoun agrees with their ante-

-cedent. Just between you and I, case is

important. Verbs has.to agree with their

subjects. Watch out for irregular verbs —

which has cropped inté our language. Don't use no double negatives. A writ- er musn’'t shift your point of view.

When dangling, don’t use participles. .

Join clauses good, like a conjunction should. Don't use a run-on sentence you got to punctuate it.

About sentence fragments. In letters themes’ reports articles and stuff like that we use commas to keep a stfing of

items apart. Don’t use commas, which

aren’t necessary. It’s important to use

apostrophe’s right. Don’t abbrev. f Check to see if you have any’ words

out. In my opinion I think that an author’

when he is writing shouldn’t get into the habit of making use of too many unnec: essary words that he does not really need. And, of course, there’s that old

one: never use a preposition to end a- sentence with. Last but not least, lay off:

cliches. 4 —Robert B. Thomas,. The Old Farmer’s 1975 Almanac.

Feb.10/75

(Courtesy Pat Kavalec)

INTER OFFICE MEMO

| DOUGLAS COLLEGE

TO: ALL FACULTY DATE: Feb.10/75

FROm: FACULTY ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE

RE: Our representatives, Jack Finnbogason and Gord Gilgan have just returned from the Banff Seminar on Collective Bargaining.

Two tapes of keynote speakers (Crispoe and Howe) at this conference are

now available. Anyone wishing to borrow these tapes may contact Sandra Carpenter (Surrey, local 257).

SC/pk

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