Hello everyone, my name is Joelle. For those of you who don't know me, I am a student at Montmorency College in Social Science. This session is my third session. I just started my second year. Social Science is a program that helps to understand and analyze the world and the humans. A lot of interesting courses are available for everyone like Politics, Psychology, History, etc. A field of study that is related to this program that I really I am passionate about is criminology.

A challenge that I can face and that is field-related is "how can I choose the right term to name a criminal mental disorder?" It is important in this job to use the right word when you are talking about a mental disorder and especially with criminals, because it can have an impact on how the person will be treated by professional and how the person will see himself.

Virtual writing tutor is a very useful website that can help a lot of people. It can help someone who wants to learn English as a second language, but it can also help English speaker that just want to verify the grammar, the spelling or the right words to use in a certain situation. First you can write in the address bar the URL: virtual writing tutor.com and press enter to the link. You will see a black and blue logo at the top of the page and some icons in the top right corner. After, you can click on log in and connect yourself or create an account if you don’t have one. In the text area in the middle of the page, you can write a sentence or any word. In the navigation menu, in the center, a lot of options are there for you. If you click on the submit button in the check box, you can count your words, check your grammar, check your target structure, etc. You also have access to a spell checker. If you click on the microphone at the bottom right of the text area, you can tell the sentence instead of writing it. To be able to do a screencast, you can go to the other navigation menu and click on writing tools and screencast script creator. After that, you just have to click on New Script Title and start your screencast with the instructions that I gave you.

For an example of how helpful can be, if you write a complicated sentence that is field related, like for example, The patient that committed crime was in a schizophrene episode. If you click on the grammar check button, you will see that I made a mistake with the word schizophrene. The good spelling is schizophrenia. Another example: He can be qualified as a sociopatte. Again, you can click on the grammar check button. He can be qualified as a sociopath. You can also write a complicated word that you have difficulty to pronounced, Penitentiary. If you click on the speaker button, you can hear how to pronounce the word right.

In conclusion, the Virtual Writing Tutor can be a wonderful option to increase you English and your ability to use more complicated words. I am pretty sure that if every time you have a doubt or a question that concerned grammar or word in you field of study, you will learn a lot of new words to impress your future boss! Thank you for watching, have a great day.

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Total MP3 length: 03:44

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