Sentence examples for proficient author from inspiring English sources

Writing in 1923, Kwee Tek Hoay – himself a proficient author – wrote that he had been fascinated by the story as a child, to the point he had "memorised more than half of its contents by heart".

The author compares and analyses the lab reports of three ESL writers and a proficient writer who is a 'native speaker' of English.

Become a proficient writer with marketable ideas.

Since interview transcripts were available in Spanish and English, authors proficient in Spanish and those not proficient were able to participate in data coding and analyses.

All three of the males in the group acquired "proficient tool use," the authors say.

During the full-text screening, only articles in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Catalan will be included as the review authors are proficient in those languages.

The authors were proficient in both Kaqchikel and Spanish, and they were also accompanied by a female staff member of Wuqu' Kawoq, previously unknown to the participants, who was a native Kaqchikel speaker and was able to clarify questions or responses as necessary.

Box 2 Final inclusion and exclusion criteria > > with data on the health status and/or access to health care of undocumented migrants in one or more of the EU27 countries; in a language in which authors were proficient (i.e. Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish); published from 1 January 1990 to 31 December 2012.

Such differences in number of congruent trials, also pointed out by Hilchey and Klein (2011), could serve as an explanation for the inconsistency of results found between these two studies, which focused on the same age group and similar bilinguals (early and highly-proficient), but the authors themselves claim they still cannot explain their own contrasting results (Costa et al. 2009, Appendix C).

Similarly, Robb sees Rimbaud's African field bulletins as an implicit criticism of the languages of commerce and diplomacy (and his conduct in business activities as a criticism of the inadequacies of other traders): "The refusal to adopt contemporary prejudices, which makes the 'Illuminations' such an excitingly alien work, also made its author an unusually proficient explorer".

A Chinese female (the author) who was proficient in both English and Japanese, served as the interviewer.