Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Subject-Verb agreement

You can find a document on subject-verb agreement with exercises here.  The key for the exercises is available here.

A longer document entitled "Grammar and Punctuation for Business Communication"  is hereby available.  Please refer to pages 11 - 14 for subject-verb agreement.  We will be using this document when we deal with other major issues related to writing.

This topic is dealth with in Section 25.4 of your book.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Articles

Here you can find the document on articles along with the key for the exercises.
 
This topic is dealth with in Section 28.1 of your book.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Lists of three and the rule of 3s: two speeches

Here you can find the first part of Steve Jobs's iPhone product launch speech.

Here you can find Barack Obama's inauguration speech.

In both of them, please pay attention to the usage of the lists of three and the rule of 3s.

Here is a stream where the rule of 3s is explained among other useful tips on making presentations.

More tips on PowerPoint presentations

Here you can find list of do's and dont's for PowerPoint presentations.

The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint

Here you can find Guy Kawasaki's recommendations on the length (10 slides), duration (20 minutes) and font size (30 points) in a PowerPoint presentation.

Here you can find a stream of his pitch. ('Bozo' means 'fool'.)

The dont's for PowerPoint

Here you can find Don McMillan's standup on the dont's of a PowerPoint presentation.