Your tutor may refer to these in the course of her or his comments on your essay. The most recent additions are marked with an asterisk in the index above. The EnglishWeb guide to online resources includes a number of annotated links to other sites dealing with issues of writing skills , grammar and punctuation , and citation styles for documenting electronic resources. Some of the entries below include direct links to some of these sites. They appear in uppercase, without full stops between the letters.
Abbreviations are generally a shortened form of a single word.
They usually appear in lowercase, with an initial capitalisation if needed. Sender and receiver refer to actual people, while addresser and addressee are roles provided in texts. This means that addresser and addressee can never fully coincide with sender and receiver. Nothing a text can do can guarantee that the person who picks it up is anything like the addressee role built into it. Nothing it can do can guarantee that the addresser role faithfully reflects its sender.