Case Study: Urban Planning and Development Issues

PetPeeves.docx

Improper Terms	Proper Terms
Key	Critical, crucial, important,..
In order to	To
In order for	For
Amongst	Among
Skillset	Skill(s)
Done	Produced, developed, constructed
Data is; data was	Data are; data were
Statistical data	Data
Play a role	Only humans play a role not inanimate objects
Have to	Must
A lot	Numerous, many,…
Utilize	Use
Whether or not	Whether
He also stated	Also, he stated
Handles a program	Manages a program
Judgement	Judgment
They are however	However, they are
Possess skills	Have skills
Main role	Principal role
Great impact	Profound effect
Coming up with	Producing, developing
Use acronyms sparingly and spell them out the first time you use them	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Do not use jargon, slang, idioms, and colloquialisms in papers or discussion areas	Write scholarly not in everyday language as in Facebook, texting, or other social media
Do not use I, we, us, you, me,…
No contractions	Is not, are not, do not,…
”,	,”
Hard data	Valid and reliable data
the general public	the public
come up with	produce, develop,..
bible	Bible
whereas	while
made	prepared, produced, conducted, constructed,...
big picture information
harder to get	more difficult to obtain
surveys=questionnaires	they are not the same
plenty of	sufficient
comes in handy
paves the way
going a long way to
looks at	examines, investigates, analyzes,..
wrong information
when it comes to	considering
data comes in	data are collected