Author Archive for: "TalkUser1"

Lunch is an important meal of the day and for any TALK international student at college it can be quite a challenge organizing and storing that healthy lunch that is going to provide you with the [...]

Punctuation for titles can appear confusing because titles appear to be punctuated in any of three ways.  When you are writing about other people’s books, mentioning a movie, quoting a poem, you [...]

If you want to communicate with the millennial generation you need to understand the relationship between millennial values and language.  Millennial jargon is very influenced by what they [...]

When we talk about biased language we are also discussing sexism, which is just another form of bias.  Biased language is important to understand especially when you are part of another culture [...]

Millennial language is a rich source of new words and phrases which, as fast as they are created by this generation, are then quickly adopted by the mainstream.  Millennial language is the [...]

College presents a fantastic opportunity for a whole lot of different experiences, and for TALK International students it is important to think about what is going to make your life and what you [...]

“Omit needless words.”― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style  We have many phrases and expressions in the English language which contain needless words. What do we mean by needless words? [...]

Writing a resume is not just a well laid out and attractive looking document.  If you have all the qualifications in the world, but when you get down to writing a resume, you do not pay attention [...]

When TALK English Schools students go traveling, they will find that bringing along a travel towel is a good idea for a variety of reasons. This handy college necessity can really make your [...]

  Commonly misused words are those that have been repeated so much that  it is the incorrect interpretation of the word that becomes the ‘accepted’ meaning.  Commonly misused [...]