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5 Tips for Improving Your Writing Expanded: Poets & Writers Magazine Creative Writing Prompts
In a previous post, I offered 5 tips for improving writing skills. Two of those tips included: 3. Practice makes perfect. Just like anything else that you want to improve, you must practice writing.… more →
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5 Tips for Improving Your Writing Expanded: Poets & Writers Magazine Creative Writing Prompts
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wrote 2 years ago: In a previous post, I offered 5 tips for improving writing skills. Two of those tips included: 3. P … more →
"Who" Versus "That"
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wrote 2 years ago: In an earlier post, I noted that one should never use the word “that” when referring to … more →
Tips on Grammar, Punctuation, and Style: "This," "That," "Who," and "Whom"
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wrote 2 years ago: Make certain your referents are clear. Remember that your reader is not as close to the research or … more →
Tips on Grammar, Punctuation, and Style: Abbreviations
wrote 2 years ago: Always identify abbreviations the first time you use them. You do not need to identify the abbreviat … more →
Tips on Grammar, Punctuation, and Style: Commas, Semi-colons, and Colons
wrote 2 years ago: Commas, semi-colons, and colons. Remember to use commas after an introductory phrase of a sentence, … more →
Ten Rules for Writing Fiction
wrote 3 years ago: I recently stumbled on an article in the Guardian called Ten rules for writing fiction. The article … more →
Latin Abbreviations in APA Style
wrote 3 years ago: When writing a scholarly article in APA style and using Latin abbreviations, there is one rule to be … more →
5 Tips for Improving Writing Skills
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wrote 3 years ago: The importance of good writing skills is evident no matter what your profession, as I noted in an ea … more →
After Deadline: A Times Topics Grammar Blog
wrote 3 years ago: I found an interesting blog that also happens to be part of The New York Times, like the Grammar New … more →
APA Reference Citations in Text
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wrote 3 years ago: I frequently see authors make errors when citing references in the text of scholarly papers in APA s … more →
While versus Although
wrote 3 years ago: Ok, I’m on a roll here, so one more post regarding mistakes I often see authors make. As you m … more →
Since versus Because
wrote 4 years ago: A brief but important post today that again falls into the category of frequent writers’ mista … more →
That versus Which
wrote 4 years ago: When we’re talking about the relative pronouns that and which, we need to be careful which one … more →
Grammar News from The New York Times...
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wrote 4 years ago: For all you grammar lovers out there (and maybe haters too!) there’s a fabulous feature in The … more →
Chicago Manual of Style Online 15th Edition: Free Trial
wrote 4 years ago: Did you know you can now get an unlimited access free trial of the Chicago Manual of Style online? T … more →
APA Style Prefers Active Voice!
wrote 4 years ago: Probably the most common error in scientific writing is the use of passive voice. According to the A … more →
APA on Anthropomorphism
wrote 4 years ago: Darwin as Monkey Although I can barely spell it, anthropomorphism this is one of my favorite words i … more →
Linguistic devices in scientific writing
wrote 4 years ago: Shakespeare No matter how much you or I (for that matter) love poetry and poetic expressions such … more →
Parallelism in lists
wrote 4 years ago: While I’m on the topic of parallelism, the APA manual instructs that “elements in a seri … more →
