Academic Writing
Talk to Your Audience, not With Them.
One of the common errors that I’ve noticed in my editing lately is the poor use of personal pronouns. This weakness in writing can seriously affect our academic work, and can obscure meaning.
What is a personal pronoun? Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns. Words like them, it, and her are pronouns. These […]
Lessons About Writing Learned from Text Messaging
I’ve mentioned before that I think cell phone text messaging is doing a lot to contribute to the decline of quality in written communications, and when we look around at our written world, we notice a new sloppiness brought upon us by the necessary development of text messaging shorthand. While I’m no fan of text […]
Academic Paper Mills - Why Buy Something You Can Get for Free?
Producing papers for students is big business online. Everywhere one looks, paper farms like superior papers offer “custom” academic papers and essays for purchase. What could be better? You receive a paper assignment from your instructor, you e-mail these guys with the assignment, and days later you have a paper in hand. Sure, academic writing can be […]
