vrijdag 3 oktober 2008

Does Athena herald a good mark?

So it has begun. The workload.
Today I have started my first Limerick essay. The first in a long series to come. The educational system in Ireland is completely different from that in Belgium, so I'm slightly worried. In my home country, only the language proficiency courses are evaluated through essays. And last year, I only had one English proficiency course. Thus my experience in writing English texts is very limited.
But today in the library, I swiftly laid out my structure and researched some information on the web. Soon, the writing process could begin. The great thing about writing on my computer is that all necessary tools are just a mouse click away! The wondrous system that helps me is called "Athena". This is a site, exclusively for students of Ghent University. It allows you to access all kinds of programs that would cost you a fortune to collect otherwise.
The section I find particularly interesting is the Dictionary section. It contains a vast amount of translating and explaining dictionaries in all imaginable languages. Furthermore, I can easily find synonyms to vary my vocabulary and there is even a program that makes it easier to insert endnotes. I owe it to Athena that I can use fancy words such as "to herald" and "perpetrator" in my essays. Writing essays and looking up synonyms, I am sure it will enhance my vocabulary a great deal!

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