Slope Stability Paper
All,
So apparently I don’t publish posts often enough, so here is a new post. I have been quite busy lately. Here a link to the paper I’ve spent 16 of the last 24 hours working on. If you feel inclined to read it do, and if you proof read it, I would appreciate the help (it is due on Tuesday; any corrections after that will just make me frustrated). After 16 hours I’m not to into reading it again. I’d just hand it in as is at this point, spelling mistakes, grammar errors and all. I have two more homework assignments to finish by Tuesday and a take-home final to do by Thurday. So it will probably be a while before I check in again, except to read comments about the errors on my paper.
-Brian
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My only comment….I’m so glad I’m not in school! Who knew there was so much involved to figure out safety factors of slip surfaces? I learned a lot…which mean you must have been clear in your arguments. If I could vaguely understand it, it must be great, right? What I learned? Appreciate civil engineers more! And I expect the next paper ot be “Real-life examples” by Brian Amos. Hahaha.
Since my brain is not up to par these days, I can only give grammatical edits…and probably not very good ones. Sorry if this is annoying to you.
I tried to save a copy to edit and then email it back, but it won’t let me and the copy and pasting messed up the formatting, so you are stuck with this annoying comment o’ grammatical corrections. I promise there are only like 1 or 2 per page…which is pretty impressive.
My only very minor (probably mostly personal style) edits:
I think you need quotations marks instead of apostrophes around “good enough” and probably don’t need to cap it. And you say good approximation a lot on the first page. Actually you use apostrophes throughout in this way. I think you usually use apostrophes when you are quoting within a quote…does that make sense??
I think you left out the word “is” in the last sentence of the 5th paragraph.
You need a comma in the second sentence of Using the Computer. Run-on sentence on the bottom of page 2. Right above Fig. 1, I think you mean “too” not “to”.
Top of page 4, should Monte Carlo be capped or not? You have both.
Page 4, 2nd paragraph, sentence starting with “Likely” is unclear. Maybe it should be “Most likely, ….”. Also in the 3rd paragraph, last sentence, the commas should be around “however” instead of ‘will”. 5 lines up from bottom of page 4…”it’s” should “its”. 🙂 Am I really annoying yet??
Ok…The SA method…after the numbers, 4 lines down, you don’t need “of”, I think.
GA method: I find various variations a little redundant. 2nd Paragraph, comma after “carries on”. “randomly selection portions” is confusing. 3rd paragraph, 4th sentence…comma after “if it is,…”
PSO method: 2nd paragraph, you have recomputed and re-computed. You should probably pick one or the other.
Bottom sentence of pg. 7, you need a comma before “Cheng”.
You did a great job in your research! Good luck with everything!
Haha… Wow! I’m glad you read it, because now I don’t have to tonight!!
I’m sure it’s not thorough. I obviously had a little down time this morning!
It is thorough enough. My teacher is colombian, so either the grammar mistakes really mess her up, or she doesn’t even notice them. If those are the only obvious errors, then I’ll take it. Thank you for the help. I fixed the paper, so the link above is now to the final product. Thanks again.