--- Jie Li
Dear : Mike Roy
, R Fieldsend , Dave Howorth , I really appreciate your detailed suggestions sent into my mailbox, but when I reply them, I copied and plasted into this maillist so that leave them into public.
I wish this isn't a problem to you guys coz your replies are really helpful and I hope some more ppl can read them..
Hi Jie, I can't speak for Mike or Dave, but I did intend to reply to the list, and I should have checked before clicking on the send button. I appreciate your issue with not being able to spend the time on experimenting with Linux based grammar checking, and I hope your experience with Word isn't too bad. The advice about keeping the document in sections is very valid (wysiwyg gets very slow with big documents), and of course, keep backups somewhere other than your harddrive! The good thing is that its given me a mini-project to work on, and I've now started grammar checking all of the content on my own website, to see how readable it is (for the record I tend to write sentences that are too long according to readability scores, but they've always been like that). Good luck with your thesis, and I hope everything goes well. Take Care Richard ps. One person said that you should only use grammar books that were written in the UK as the American ones are just for American English, not 'proper' English. The only exception I'd make for that rule is the 'Strunk and White - Elements Of Style' book, which is tiny and packed with really useful information.