Tài liệu 18) Avoid (parentheses) pptx
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Avoid (parentheses)
These symbols: () are called parentheses.
In academic writing they are used for citing references
but you should not use them inside sentences.
Use commas instead of parentheses
Instead of:
Windows 7 (the newest operating system from
Microsoft) has a feature called ReadyBoost that
improves performance by caching data from the
system RAM into a USB flash drive.
Write:
Windows 7, the newest operating system from
Microsoft, has a feature called ReadyBoost that
improves performance by caching data from the
system RAM into a USB flash drive.
Instead of using parentheses, simply
delete unnecessary phrases.
Sometimes students use parentheses to
mean that some of the words in a sentence
are less important.
Don’t do that.
Write with commas or else delete.
Instead of:
Linux (the author’s favorite OS) was created largely
by efforts of Linus Torvalds who wrote the first
kernel for the OS in 1991 (when he was still a
college student).
Write:
Linux was created largely by efforts of Linus
Torvalds who wrote the first kernel for the OS in
1991, when he was still a college student.
About author
Hans Anderson
2007-Present: Lecturer at FPT Greenwich
Programmes, FPT University.
2007: M.S., Computational Mathematics,
University of Minnesota
2001: B.A., Computer Science, Gustavus
Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN
