Passive constructions
Items currently on the shelf cannot be requested for collection at the same Library location or campus .
Students are supported to make informed decisions about subject selection , feel prepared for senior study and identify and navigate future pathways and post-school learning goals . Students are also guided to persuasively articulate and communicate future-focused personal narratives utilising dramatic techniques .
These delivery times should be taken into consideration when choosing a delivery option and before contacting us about delays .
Activated version
You cannot request an item to collect from the same Library location or campus where it ’ s currently on the shelf .
The program supports students to make informed selection of their subjects , feel prepared for senior study and identify and succeed in future pathways and post-school learning goals . It also guides them to articulate future-focused personal narratives using dramatic techniques .
Consider these delivery times when choosing a delivery option and before contacting us about delays .
First person
Formal business style does not refer to customers or readers as ‘ you ’ or an organisation as ‘ us ’. However , modern business style allows these terms , and the University follows this style in most communications :
We are pleased to give you an exclusive offer through our Future Students website .
The exception to this is in our magazines and media releases , where we use a third-person ‘ news style ’:
The University ’ s Future Students website has an exclusive offer .
Tense
Be consistent in your use of tense . Choose present or past tense , as suits the circumstances , and avoid switching .
If you can say it with a verb , do . And look for the simplest verb that suits the context .
News stories , press releases and other pieces about events that have happened are most logically written in past tense . This follows standard practice in most mainstream media .
Use apply arrange authorise conclude considered explain implement investigate occur prefers provide review
Don ' t use lodge your application the arrangement of give authorisation for bring to a conclusion given consideration to give an explanation of the implementation of conduct an investigation the occurrence of shows a preference for the provision of undertake a review of
Pieces about upcoming events , or feature pieces , can be more energetic or human if written in present tense .
When quoting someone indirectly in the past tense , make the indirect quote past tense , too :
The Dean said the faculty would expand the program after it consulted key academics .
The Dean said the faculty will expand the program after it consults key academics .
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