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- RightWriter Grammar Analysis (exe)
- RightWriter solves your writing problems. RightWriter is much more than a simple grammar analysis tool. It analyzes your writing as a whole and finds not only grammar errors, but it warns you when it finds weak writing styles. It also shows you how to improve those weak areas. Even when...
- Tags: Grammar, Analysis, Elite Minds, RightWriter, Productivity
- Software downloads 2008-09-12
- 40ò0of parents feel that writing on a computer makes their child more likely to use poor spelling and grammar
- 40ò0of parents feel that writing on a computer makes their child more likely to use poor spelling and grammarAgreed.Any time you let a machine do for you something you should be doing, whether it grammar, spelling, or in my case as a CPA letting a machine add a column of...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, grammar, computer, network
- Discussion threads 2008-06-29
- 40% of parents think computers have a negative impact on their child’s writing
- More Likely Less Likely Makes no Difference Strongly resonant Write better because they can revise and edit easily 69% 11% 17% Present ideas clearly 54 7 34 Be creative 50 10 36 Moderately resonant ...
- Tags: Grammar, Computer, Internet, Productivity, NB
- Blog posts 2008-05-24
- When did people forget how to spell? Or complete sentences? Or form thoughts?
- When did people forget how to spell? Or complete sentences? Or form thoughts?I think you need some electrolytes.http://www.brawndo.com/;-)Just more proof......that the movie "Idiocracy" is the future of our country.Regression?You fail to take into account that this is just a more accurate reflection of our general population, with a...
- Tags: INTERNET, Cellular phones, grammar, English Language
- Discussion threads 2008-05-20
- 60% of business correspondence has grammar or spelling errors
- 60% of all business correspondence still gets sent containing one or more grammar or spelling errors, according to WhiteSmoke. 32% of writers are failing to use all the words needed for a grammatically correct sentence. 28% of mistakes relate to punctuation, that is, knowing when to use a period, comma...
- Tags: Grammar, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Grammar and Writing Style Options
- One can set in the Grammar Settings dialog box (Tools menu, Options command, Spelling & Grammar tab, Settings) by following grammar and writing style options. If one is setting options for text written in a language other than one's language version of Word, the options may differ in the dialog...
- Tags: Grammar, Option, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- White papers 2007-12-01
- A Cloze Test Authoring System and Its Automation
- This paper presents a pilot system and discusses its possible extensions. The paper presents a web-based test authoring system for English grammar and vocabulary. It assists language teachers to make questions on arbitrary input texts, such as online news. The system employs the techniques of NLP Natural Language Processing and...
- Tags: Natural Language Processing, Grammar, Authoring System, Automation
- White papers 2007-09-27
- Office 2003 Add-in: Czech Grammar Checker (EXE)
- Office 2003 Add-in: Czech Grammar Checker provides you with the first ever Office 2003 Czech Grammar Checker. The Czech Grammar Checker assists you by analyzing text and then adding a green underline under any text that might not be grammatically correct. It focuses on the most common types of grammar...
- Tags: Grammar, Microsoft Office 2003, Czech Grammar Checker, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2007-09-20
- Instant journalism: Who needs grammar?
- Instant journalism: Who needs grammar?Thank you...... that is very kind of you and I never expected to read such a post. Some of the blogs in ZDNET are focused and well written. For instance David Berlind's stuff can be very "to the point" and Ed Bott seems to know what...
- Tags: Blogging, Instant Journalism, grammar, blog, journalism
- Discussion threads 2007-01-07
- Imagiers - French grammar / 56 exercices (exe)
- Imagiers - 56 exercices offers you to test you French skills with basic but efficient exercices. Imagiers aims to be as simple as possible regarding its use: it is as simple as select your exercise. Read the question, give an answer, check if it is correct or not.
- Tags: Grammar, Exercise
- Software downloads 2007-01-05
- With rise of primary school computing, whither cursive?
- With rise of primary school computing, whither cursive?Handwriting IS importantI was at university in the 90s, when the computer craze was not as far progressed as now. Still, many of my classmates were already barely able to write decent cursive (which they themselves would be able to read afterwards...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, grammar, school computing
- Discussion threads 2006-10-12
- HP's top lawyer leaves
- HP's top lawyer leavesTitanicHP is taking on water bigtime.http://opendomain.blogspot.com/CNET News.com journalists should proofreadCNET: "Baskins, who spent much of legal career"ENGLISH: "Baskins, who spent much of HER legal career"CNET: "HP was acknowledge accessing phone records of board members and journalists ..."ENGLISH: "was to acknowledge" ? "has acknowledged" ? Beats me...
- Tags: Litigation, grammer, Hewlett-Packard Co., poor form, law firm, grammar
- Discussion threads 2006-09-28
- Watching the brain when processing language
- Why are we able to follow a complex conversation while even apes can only understand individual words? German researchers from the Max Planck Institute have used the fMRI functional magnetic resonance imaging technique to discover that our brains are hard-wired for grammar. They found that simple language structures are processed...
- Tags: grammar
- Blog posts 2006-02-22
- It's Its, its' ... Apostrophic!
- It's Its, its' ... Apostrophic!NamespacesThis is the tie-in for what you are talking about. Namespace is an essential and ignored FINAL piece of the programming/systems integration puzzle. Things like Grids and Autonomics REQUIRE consistent, global Namespaces - but it isn't happening.A Namespace is like a very simple language (it follows...
- Tags: Programming languages, Murph, grammar, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-01-06
- English Workout (exe)
- This program is designed for students aged 7 - 9 in Primary 1 - 3. There are over 1500 challenging MCQ and word passages to practice on. Topics include grammar MCQ, vocabulary MCQ, grammar cloze, vocabulary cloze, comprehension, and word order. Questions are modeled closely to primary education curriculum. All...
- Tags: Grammar, Vocabulary, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Software downloads 2005-10-19
- Context Free (exe)
- Context Free contains a small language for design grammars. These grammars are sets of rules to produce images. The images are surprisingly beautiful, often from very simple grammars. Context Free is great for producing digital art, textures for 3D modelling, or decorations for your online avatar.
- Tags: Grammar, Context Free
- Software downloads 2005-09-26
- Grammar Slammer (zip)
- English grammar help + reference that answers the questions the grammar checker cannot. Get Answers not Questions and real grammar help for Windows 95 or higher. Click the little taskbar and Grammar Answers appear in the file format you already know how to use-- the Windows Help File. Easier than...
- Tags: Grammar, SQL Slammer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 95, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2005-08-15
- Grammar Slammer with Checkers (zip)
- English grammar + spelling checkers with help + reference that answers the questions the checkers raise. Click the little taskbar or integrated search button and grammar + spelling answers appear in the file format you already know how to use-- the Windows Help File. Useful for anyone who writes English...
- Tags: Grammar, SQL Slammer, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Viruses And Worms, Software, Security
- Software downloads 2005-08-15
- Grammar Studio (exe)
- Grammar Studio is a round-trip WYSIWYG grammar development tool for visually creating and deploying the W3C Speech Recognition Grammar Specification SRGS Grammar XML format GRXML speech grammar format for VoiceXML telephony and multimodal SALT and X+V or VXML applications. Rapidly reduce the time to market by using a simple workspace...
- Tags: Grammar, Grammar Studio, Speech Recognition, Telecommunications, Emerging Technologies
- Software downloads 2005-03-03
- Grammarian Pro X (sit)
- Grammarian Pro X is a universal, interactive grammar checking, spelling checking, dictionary, autocorrect, and autotype tool that works with virtually every program on your computer. Grammarian Pro X works interactively or in batch correction mode and automatically starts working in your applications to correct spelling, grammar, phrase usage, and punctuation....
- Tags: Grammar, Grammarian Pro X, AutoCorrection, Productivity
- Software downloads 2005-01-10
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