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Quick Guide to Transitions: Paragraphs

Transitions are essential to making sense in a proposition or argument, so it’s little wonder…

Plotting Fiction: The Event Story

The event story is similar to the character story in that both deal with disruptions…

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Tips for Great Business Letters

Whether writing a cover letter for a job application, a letter of resignation, a note…

Plotting Fiction: The Character Story

Your internal state evolves with your external circumstances. Big life events can have a profound…

How to Make a Table of Contents in MS Word: Basics

MS Word’s Table of Contents (ToC) feature works quite well and is more than worth…

Plotting Fiction: The Idea Story

he idea story builds suspense by withholding information. The resolution comes when the hidden information…

Comparison Charts for CSE, IEEE, and AMA References

A handy chart of more English styles: CSEm IEEE, and AMA.

Quick Guide to Common Old-School Abbreviations

This quick guide to some of the most common, old-school, and occasionally forgotten abbreviations should…

Comparison Charts for APA, MLA, and CMS References

A handy chart of the major English styles: Chicago, MLA, and APA.

Plotting Fiction: The Milieu Story

Exactly what sort of payoff you need to deliver will be determined by the kind…

Microsoft Word: Inserting Symbols

Ever wonder how documents manage to have text that isn’t on your keyboard? Ever wonder…

Are You a Better Writer than a Fifth Grader?

After freelance proofreading, editing, and writing and doing small-group literacy and math intervention for the…

3 Warnings for Using a Thesaurus

In my teaching and editing experience, there are three basic thesaurus user types: EFLs, native…

Plotting Fiction: Beginnings and Endings

A story demands resolution. The promise of a solution to a mystery, or generally an…

How to Capitalize Medicine

In today’s post, I will write about a related topic: capitalization of medication names. The…

“Was Done by the Researcher” Must Die

Plotting Fiction: Get Your Facts Straight, Part 2

There’s an old adage in journalism: “If your mother says she loves you, check it…

How to Capitalize Disease Names

If you’ve ever been confused about how to capitalize disease names, read on. In today’s…

Plotting Fiction: Get Your Facts Straight, Part 1

Inaccuracies creep in when we are in the heat of creation. We take shortcuts because…

An Easy Guide to Articles: A, An, and The

There are three articles: “a,” “an,” and “the.” All of them function as adjectives.

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