i.e. Versus e.g.

TopAdmit wishes all our Asian students a very Happy Chinese New Year! 

TopAdmit strives to help students from all over the world get admitted into the school of their dreams. This week we would like to introduce to all the applying MBA students some very helpful tools. We want to provide students with information beyond their expectations. 

- For all the mobile users (Android) we recommend that you download “MBA Essay Analysis” a mobile application which collects videos containing MBA program information and essay writing tips from all over the Web!

Your research time has just decreased, and you can now gain insight about all the information you need from the comfort of your phone.

To download the app : http://goo.gl/Sc2B3f

- For all the MBA students who thought they could never afford their dream school, we recommend you use Prodigy Finance - where alumni invest in students at the world's top business schools.

Prodigy Finance funds international MBA students attending top business schools. The loans are alumni-funded, giving them a unique community aspect, and the model is borderless. Students from 150 countries are eligible to apply. Prodigy has loan programmes with a number of the world's leading business schools, including INSEAD, London Business School and Oxford's Saïd Business School.

Visit their website for more information about getting a Prodigy student loan.

Writing tip of the week

In most forms of writing we are encouraged to write descriptive sentences. However, there are times when you want to relate your descriptions to keywords for a better understanding to the reader, or when writing in a condensed or summary format. From our editors experience we have gathered that lots of students confuse the difference between “i.e.” and “e.g.” - both very commonly used, and frequently misused, abbreviations.

i.e. and e.g. are both abbreviations for Latin terms. That's not important but you should at least know the origin of the words.

i.e. stands for id est and in English means "that is."

e.g. stands for exempli gratia, which means “for example.”

So it’s pretty simple all you have to do is remember the first letter and use the abbreviation according to your sentence. I (i.e) is used when you want to say “in other words”. E (e.g) is used when you want to say “for example”. One additional note: because “e.g.” already indicates a partial list, it is redundant to use “etc.” with “e.g.”

Examples:

- Please look for the setup file by browsing the contents of the DVD-ROM (i.e., drive d: on most Windows computers).

- The discount applies to all print items (e.g., books, magazines, newspapers) but not to electronic media.