Microsoft Word Seminars on stylistics

The use of quotations and references
(compositional pattern, namely, the name of the 
writer referred to, the title of the work quoted, 
the publishing hose, the date it was published,
the page of the excerpt quoted or referred to.) 

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Emotiveness is not entirely excluded from scientific prose. Yet in modern 
scientific prose such emotional words as marvelous, wonderful, monstrous, 
magnificent, brilliant are very seldom used. At least they are not constituents of 
modern scientific style.
 
Task 1. Analyse and learn the compositional structures of the 
following documents: 
 
1.
Cliches: 
I beg to inform you, I beg to move, I second the motion, provisional agenda, 
the above mentioned, on behalf of, private advisory, Dear Sir, We remain, 
your obedient servants. 
2.
Abbreviations: 
a.
M. P. (Member of Parliament), Gvt (government), H.M.S. (His Majesty’s 
Steamship), $ (dollar),
? 
(pound), Ltd(Limited). 
b.
P. V. P., M. P. C. (Perpetual Vice-President, Member Pickwick Club); G. 
C. M. P. C. (General Chairman – Member Pickwick Club). 
c.
D. A. O. (Divisional Ammunal Officer); a d v. (advance); a t c (attack); 
o b j. (object). A / T ( anti - tank ) ; ATAS ( Air Transport Auxiliary
Service ). 
d.
“ 2. 1 0 2 d. Inf. Div. Continues atc 26 Feb. 45 to captive objs Spruce
Peach and Cherry and Prepares to take over objs Plum and Apple after 
capture by CCB , 5
th
armd Div” 
3. A sample of a business letter. 
Smith and Sons 
25 Main Street
Manchester 
9
th
February, 1967 
Mr. John Smith 
29 Cranbourn Street
London 
Dear Sir, 
We beg to inform you that by order and account of Mr. Julian of Leeds, we 
have taken the liberty of drawing upon you for 
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25 at three months’ date to the 
order of Mr. Sharp. We gladly take this opportunity of placing our services at you 
disposal, and shall be pleased if you frequently make use of them.
Respectfully your, Smith and sons
by Jane Crawford 

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4. Charter of the United Nations 
“We the People of the United Nations Determined 
TO SAVE succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in 
our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and 
TO REAFFIRM faith in fundamental rights, in the dignity and worth of the 
human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large 
and small, and 
TO ESTABLISH conditions under which justice and respect for the 
obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can 
be maintained, and 
TO PROMOTE social progress and better standards of life in larger 
freedom, 
AND FOR THESE ENDS 
TO PRACTICE tolerance and live together in peace with one another as 
good neighbours, and 
TO UNITE our strength to maintain international peace and security, and 
TO EMPLOY international machinery for the promotion of the economic 
and social advancement of all peoples,