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When is Mr Mrs appropriate? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange This is really an etiquette question, not English The etiquette for letters is fairly well known (which is not to say you cannot ignore it if you choose), but email is still not old enough for it to be clear whether you should start with'Dear Bill', 'Bill' or no salutation at all, even when you are addressing a friend: much less how to address a business contact or potential contact In
vocabulary - Desk name plate for a PhD holder - English Language . . . My brother recently received a PhD diploma in Chemistry I would like to give him a desk name plate as a gift with a small insignia and his name and title Should it be: Alexander Doe, PhD or Doe Alexander, PhD or something else? Is it appropriate to use Alex instead of Alexander? In all likelihood, he is going to work in the U K
phrase requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange There's at least one 27-letter pangram, which makes sense but is probably better thought of as a headline: Bawds jog, flick quartz, vex nymph And if you allow standard abbreviations, you can do 26: Mr Jock, TV Quiz PhD, bags few lynx I vote Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow as the best (28 characters; repeats a and o)
Capitalize fields of study? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange It depends If you are referring to the title of a course or a major field of study, in a formal sense, then capitalize it I took Computer Science 101, which was a survey course Otherwise, just leave it uncapitalized I'm interested in studying computer science
Studying PhD at the university or studying PhD in the university? I'm studying for a PhD in the physics department I'm in physics at MIT He's a professor in the Department of Biology at Harvard Are you the only assistant professor in this department? I'm a PhD student at the Faculty of Social Sciences in the University of Copenhagen She's a professor at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
What would be the British Equivalent Words to Freshmen Sophomore Students who have completed their degree and are attempting to achieve a PhD typically do not use year numbering at all, and are merely referred to as post-graduates, which contrasts with students who complete their degree but do not go on to further education and are normally referred to as graduates
If I attain a Masters degree, how do I refer to myself? Yes If you graduate with a BSc or BA, you are a Bachelor of Science or a Bachelor of Arts respectively Similarly if you graduate with a master's, you are a master, and if you graduate with a doctorate you're a doctor But it's almost unheard of nowadays for people to routinely refer to themselves by their academic title for qualifications lower than doctorate level (and that's becoming rarer
Is it suitable to use etc. in an academic paper? Given that it is an academic paper, the list should normally be expanded or have a group title ( "or any other 2D shapes" ) etc always leaves some ambiguity, which is rarely appropriate for such a medium FWIW, I am currently writing a PhD thesis, and have not found a place for etc anywhere in it
Mr. Smith, John or Smith, Mr. John Title location in reversed name The Chicago Manual of Style (17th ed ), 16 40, also says to drop titles from names in indexes: Academic titles such as Prof and Dr , used before a name, are not retained in indexing, nor are abbreviations of degrees such as PhD or MD Similarly, social titles are not used However, Chicago does say this in 16 41: Abbreviations such as Jr are retained in indexing but are placed after the