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Vancouver Referencing Style

Vancouver referencing, is a numeric system and the preferred style for most biomedical journals, so…

Easy Cross-References in MS Word

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The Vocative Comma Is Important, People!

The whole point of grammar is that the audience shouldn’t have to guess at what…

Italics and Quotes for Titles: A Guide

Titles come in many shapes and sizes, but they all have rules for formatting that…

Writing Style vs. Grammar: Right, Wrong, or Neither?

Recently it came to my attention that an issue I’d thought of for years as…

Customizing the Spellchecker Dictionary

There’s a dictionary that lives in your copy of Microsoft Word. In fact, there are…

Words You Use but Don’t Know

Conversation is often more about phrases than words, to the point where we often use…

Collaborative Editing, Part 2: Google Docs

Google Docs (GDocs) is a free software application from Google. If you have a Gmail…

Collaborative Editing, Part 1

In some situations, however, a more collaborative process is not just appropriate, but critical. Let’s…

10 Quick Tips for Using Adverbs

Adverbs are modifiers used specifically to explain, describe, and define the way actions occur. They’re…

How to Use Microsoft Word AutoCorrect

Microsoft Word’s autocorrect can it fix common spelling errors and automate routine formatting and capitalization…

How to Find a Good Editor

When hiring an editor for your writing, you first need to make sure you understand…

Editing vs. Ghostwriting

First, ghostwriting isn’t a legitimate practice when it comes to term papers or other formal…

Italics: The Dos and Don’ts

I spend a lot of my editing hours at ProofreadingPal dealing with wayward italics, so…

Quick Guide to Colons and Semicolons

Let's talk about two marks that set off complementary information, phrases and clauses without which…

3 Steps to Good Description

Two schools of thought have helped define the English lit attitude toward writing description since…

Guidelines for Quoting and Paraphrasing Part II

In today’s post, I’ll look at three potentially problematic issues related to quoting and paraphrasing…

Guide to Commas, Dashes, and Parentheses

The problem with having so many choices in punctuation is that often even experienced writers…

Editing vs. Cheating

Hiring an editor isn’t about getting someone to write your paper for you, and an…

5 Tips for Writing a PhD Application

The most critical part of a PhD application is the research proposal and accompanying letter.…

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