Parallelism in slides

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Parallelism in slides

• Maintain parallelism in
• design
• linguistic structure

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Parallelism in linguistic structure (1)

• Repetition of linguistic patterns
• Good mothers, great moms
• (Adjective noun, adjective noun)
• Cows moo and horses neigh
• (Noun verb, noun verb)

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Parallelism in linguistic structure (2)

• Laugh and the whole world laughs with you,
• Cry and you cry alone

• Imperative
• Verb conjunction noun (phrase) verb
  adverbial phrase

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Linguistic parallelism in bulleted lists

• Present key ideas,
• avoid excessive detail
• Use key words
• Maintain parallelism in
• titles
• bulleted lists

Verb (phrase) noun (phrase)
noun (phrase)
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Activity

• Study the following slides, and
• comment on whether there is parallelism in the
  language used.
• suggest improvements you would make.

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Computers in the office

• Used for
• Management of records
• Analysis of data
• Preparing documents (reports, letters, etc.)
• Managing information (e.g., adding, updating,
  deleting information and retrieving information)

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Uses of computers

• Computers are used where there is a lot of data
  to be manipulated
• Complex tasks must be managed
• We need to have real-time access information from
  geographically distant locations