h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: University of Glamorgan - A12350792
Author: benjaminpmoore - U3508889

So come on then- who's up for a road trip?

So, are you Welsh, or did you attend this place?

Some typos. Want the corrections?

Also, I'd put the "Things to see and do" after the campus and stuff information.

No I'm not Welsh, I went to this place a few years ago. Corrections please, if you have any. I'll try that other idea as well, thanks.

>>situated in the small minning village of Trefforest in heart of the Rhondda1 Valley, the University of Glamorgan offers you education in an atttrative, if generally rain-soaked, South Wales village. If you're looking to get about as far away from your parents as possible2, and have a crack at further education at the same time, <<

- mining, not minning
- in the heart, not in heart
- If you're looking... I suspect the first comma isn't necessary.

>>The little Welsh town of Trefforest is built on the banks of the river Taff3 and is about 20 minutes north of Cardiff, either by car, from the M4, or by rail. <<
- comma after Taff.
- suggestion for restructuring second half of sentence:
is about 20 minutes north of Cardiff by car, from the M4, or by rail.

>>The Halls of Residence are, in the main, about five minutes further up.<<
- is that a British turn of phrase? I'd say 'for the most part'. Whatevah.

>>he University has displayed it's fondness for law students by putting the Law school over on the other side of Trefforest, <<
-its, not it's
- i think it's law school or Law School.

>>The Campus is sufficiently well equipped that, if you were really lazy4 you'd hardly have to leave.<<
- campus, not Campus
- comma after lazy

>>As well as the pubs and entertainment in the student Union, you will also find the building has a post box and one of those machines you can get money out of. I don't know what they're called.<<
- Student Union or student union.
- you mean like an ATM?

>>The building also houses a Laundrette, although there are laundry facilities you can use yourself at the top of the Campus.<<
- laundrette, not Laundrette.
- campus. not Campus.

>>The Union building is right next door to the purpose built sports centre including it's own gym, with various membership rates, depending on how much you want to spend on pretending to be fit. <<
-stringy sentence. break it down?
-purose-built instead of purpose built?
-its, not it's. (Hint: possesive doesn't get the postrophe.)

>>Further down the slope, you will find the Campus shop, which also has it's own post box, and also houses a Branch of a well-known students insurance company5 as well as a very small travel shop.<<
- Campus, it's and Branch.
- comma after company

>>>which is open 24 hrs a day during term time<<
-hours

>>The Campus also has it's own, <<
- usual

>>Nobody is for a moment suggesting that you should relinquish and seond of valuable studying time for the purposes of your own amusement, <<
- relinquish any second. (typos)

>>If this is your thing then not only does the degree course come highly recommended but you have chosen an area with a rich cultural history. <<
- If history is your thing...
- degre course??

>>where you can awe at the recreation Catapaults and Marvel at why that wall hasn't fallen on you. <<
- is awe a verb?
- capitalisation there: catapults and marvel
- marvel that the wall hasn't.

>>For more Guide related castle info see Some Great Castles of Wales.<<
- my preference: it's more graceful to incorporate the link into a sentence, like: "There are some other great castles in Wales too", with the link in the words great castles in wales.

>>This is Smiths, which hosts various Discos, Comedy Nights and other fun events you can find out about by here. T<<
- you can find out about "at their website" with the link in that phrse.
- discos capitalised?

Enough for now. Enjoy.

This is looking like a good solid basis for an Entry already - thanks Benjamin!

I noticed a couple of other typos:

Accomadation --> Accommodation
Laxadaisical --> Lacksadaisical

I'm sure you know this, but 'neuadd' in this context means 'hall'. Though it would be good if it meant '42'!

Students' union site: http://www.glamsu.com/

Famous alumni: Rugby players Rupert Moon, Jonathan Humphreys and Michael Owen (not to be confused with the England footballer), Olympic athlete Ian Hamer and entertainment legend Max Boyce!

As it happens, I didn't know that, thanks. The reason I didn't put the Students Union Stite link in (and perhaps you will disagree with me on this) is that it can be reached driectly from the main glamorgan website and I didn't see the point of linking one website from another website that's also got a link to it... if you see what I mean.
I assume most of these allumni when to the University when it was a poly?

Hello Benjamin,

I think it's fine to link to the Students' Union website as well, to make them both easily accessible. (You can link to it where you mention them installing steps to the bar...name them and shame them! )

I would imagine many did (certainly Max Boyce!) went when it was a poly, but, as we've done with the other universities, as long as they went there at some point then it's fine to list them.



Natalie

Okay,um, changaes made, except I haven't put the alumni in yet. In the mean time, Leo:

'for the most part' is either a British turn of phrase or just somethying I say. Not sure which
Yes, I do mean like an ATM, is that what we call them this side of the pond?
I though there were too types of aprostrophes, possessive and omissive. What does anyone else think? Is this an American linguistic thing or am I just wrong?
Not sure what you mean by degre course. Well, alright, I have no idea at all.

I have now added the students union website link, as well.

'Its' as a possessive pronoun is the same here, too. I'm not too good at explaining this - whenever you're explaining 'something that belongs to it' (whenever 'it' is a previously-defined object), then it's 'its'. I hope that makes sense!

ATM is more of an American term I think - we'd just call them cash machines.

I think it's looking really good though, Benjamin.

When the thing doing the possessivng is a certain type of pronoun, like 'our', you don't use the apostrophe. So belonging to 'it' is 'its'. (And belonging to us is 'ours'.)



I'll finish the run-through at some point, but possibly not before the end of the week. So maybe you just wanna chug it into PR... and let 'em rip it apart.

You mean there's more? Yikes! Oh well, its all been changed anyway (you see what I did there?). Anyone else think this thing is ready for pr yet?