Using "+" instead of "'and" (1 Viewer)
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hipsta_jess
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ive always been told not to use abbreviations
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i write Ros and Guild
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They do care- its based on grammar and spelling along with content for english- i just aksed my mum (teacher) and she said not to do it under any circumstances. Plus, if you have a real stickler for rules for a marker you can lose marks for not underlining you texts etc...
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In those 'Standards Packages' heaps of Band 6 responses do use abbreviations. There are often many spelling mistakes...They are mainly interested in structure and language ability, not pedantic things like using a '+'.
I think you would have to specify intially what the abbreviation/acronym is, ie Brave New World (BNW) then you can use BNW for the rest of the essayOriginally posted by ssj_goku
Its fine to do that in a response, same with shortening the text (e.g. Brave New World to BNW).
i guess its ok if u write the whole thing first then put it in brakets. like say.... Rosencrants and Guildernstern are dead (RAGAD).
i guess its ok.....i always do that, and my eng teacher used to mark for HSC and he said it was ok, as long as u do that. oh and you HAVE to underline the titles!!!!!
i guess its ok.....i always do that, and my eng teacher used to mark for HSC and he said it was ok, as long as u do that. oh and you HAVE to underline the titles!!!!!
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Thats not true. As long as you make what you are referring to clear at first (obviously) then there really is no problem. Its not saying that you spit on the English language and all its conventions, its simply saying that you'd like to maximise the amount of relevant info. Also if it were a problem, then it would be a problem regardless of the quality of their work. And furthermore, the only time you really should be using this is if your work is of such a standard that you really do need to achieve a higher level of efficiency, in which case you should get away with it as you yourself said and there should be no problem. But ultimately you just gotta ask yourself one question. Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?
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Our teacher told us never to use "+" in an essay. She gets really upset whenever we do it too, being "anti-mathematics" and all.
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You think I'd have better things in life to do than carry this on, but I don't so here's my reply.
So far I have been mainly speaking about contractions in text titles as opposed to +'s (Although the same arguments should apply-just that title contractions save alot more time). At any rate, you seem to have changed the issue to whether or not its an acceptable English convention as opposed to whether or not its accepted by the BOS. Its acceptability by the BOS IS the main issue, and past results (which are really the only solid facts to go on) have shown they are. Furthermore, you seem to have the idea that the people who need to use these can't really have work of a high standard. Its not about need, its about maximising your time, something very important when you want to get in more than three pages. Even if you don't do maths, surely you could realise that a second here, a second here= a bunch more seconds.
