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The Dummy Subject and Lost Pronouns

Dummy subject can add unnecessary fluff to a sentence, thus distracting readers from the point…

The Modern Writing Muse

Today, seeing as artists come in all manner of genders, and not many of us…

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AMA Referencing Style

The next style we’re looking at is another of these specialist fields: medicine. The American…

CSE Referencing Style

The physical sciences (e.g., physics, chemistry, genetics, biological sciences, astronomy) often rely on CSE referencing,…

Guide to Olde English

“Olde English” is all made up, but the individual words themselves did exist in general…

Commonly Misused Words

I encounter incorrectly used words (and made up words) all the time, and today I’ll…

Eggcorns and Idiomatic Writing

A species of unconscious wordplay, eggcorns tend to be individual quirks; some, though, have become…

Vancouver Referencing Style

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

Easy Cross-References in MS Word

With long electronic documents, it can be useful to make links that take readers to…

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…

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