While editing distinct documents, I found several things I'd like to address inside my Tips of the Day. Thus today, you get a number of tips for the price of just one.
First, let's discuss stand-alone vs. stand alone. The previous is utilized as an adjective, as opposed to the last option is used being a verb phrase.
Examples:
This software application is available in both a new system version along with a standalone version. (adjective)
If you actually symbolize truth as well as the law, you will never standalone. (verb)
Webster's dictionary hyphenates this adjective stand-alone, although SPE Style Manual trumps Webster in my line of do the job, and SPE claims it's a single expression.
Second, I ran across the term "higher drawdown" in addition to was confused. Do the writer indicate "higher drawdown rate" in ways that it was drawn lower even decrease, or maybe was the particular drawdown attracted not as much down in ways that it actually was increased. I consider the writer meant larger drawdown rate, which would
also signify "faster drawdown.In . So I altered your message "higher" to "faster."
Third, I found a new type of "verbing any noun," you know can make my family cringe. The words was "cook-booked," along with although it was
"coined" by placing it inside "quotation tattoos," it designed for a recipe which had been hard to swallow.
Bad Instance:
Stimulation practice cannot normally be "cook-booked" across these kinds of different plays.
I'm certain the writer meant that the tactic could not be duplicated in a "cookie-cutter" approach in just about every field.
However, I found about three problems with this concept:
1) Cook manual is a noun, not just a action-word, and it refers to food recipes, certainly not activation.
2) Cookbook is just not hyphenated. It is just a single phrase.
3) We have an idiomatic expression termed "cooking your books" that describes inventive (i.ourite., illegal) bookkeeping practices, and you certainly would not like the audience to think that's what an individual mean by way of "cook-booked."
Hence, I would personally change this word to "duplicated."
Corrected Example:
Stimulation exercise cannot usually become duplicated across this kind of different works.
Fourth, I found another instance of repeated redundancy: $1M dollars
For one thing, its not necessary both dollar signal (Buck) and the word "dollars;Inch use one and the various other.
For another thing, I would personally spell out M since million, because many people will mistake these people for a thousand, like Mscf - unless the figure appears within the table or Stick out spreadsheet, in which case We would use $MM.
Thus, I would declare we gave aside $1 million in SPE totally free college funding during the past five years.
That's adequate to cause you to feel like hundreds of money!