The Writer’s Bookshelf

However and wherever you find them, the right books can help improve your writing and…

Write an Effective Blog Post

No matter your motivation for blogging, you’ll want to make sure each post is high…

5 Tips for Choosing a Paper Topic

Writing is never easy; even professional writers and academics, people who have chosen careers with…

Hearing the Music: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Writing (Again)

There’s no rule saying that academic articles can’t be written in muscular prose, no law…

Top 10 Changes in APA’s 7th Edition

Here are the top ten changes to the APA manual, selected because these are the…

Poetry Tools to Enhance Your Prose: Still More Figures of Speech (Anaphora, Merism, Antonomasia)

The kinds of figurative language described in this installment are not appropriate for most academic…

How to Make Your Writing More Inclusive

You should shun discriminatory language as you should shun discrimination; doing so also allows your…

Really Tricky Apostrophe Rules

In this post we cover the apostrophe rules that are, for lack of a better…

Poetry Tools to Enhance Your Prose: Analogy, Part 2 (Metonymy and Synecdoche)

This time, let’s go way out there and look at a pair of related poetic…

Tips for Using Singular “They”

As an editor, I am naturally sensitive to language matters, and I took this criticism…