Academic

From scholarly writers and researchers to university and graduate students, every academic writer needs to understand how to use parenthetical citations correctly. Parenthetical citations are commonly used to credit sources when quoting directly or paraphrasing another author’s ideas or statements in your academic work. In this article, we explain how to correctly cite your sources […]

In our lastarticle on choosing a journal manuscript, we talked about the general factors you should consider when deciding which journals to target for submission. In this post, we will look more closely at another of these aspects: a journal’s aim and scope. What is a journal’s scope? “Scope,” simply stated, is the journal’s purpose […]

What is the best way to improve writing style? It may sound counterintuitive (or overly obvious), but the best way to improve your writing style is to learn from your writing mistakes. And how do you learn from writing mistakes? Well, by learning about and recognizing the most common writing mistakes that authors make in […]

As a researcher, you spend countless hours pursuing answers to important questions about how our world works. This research consumes a significant amount of your time. Sadly, none of it matters when you have to face a sad truth: Your work’s merit is judged by whether and where your findings are accepted for publication. Several […]

It’s rare that an article is authored by only one or two people anymore. In fact, the average original research paper has five authors these days. The growing list of collaborative research projects raises important questions regarding the author order for research manuscripts and the impact an author list has on readers’ perceptions. With a […]

Answering Research Presentation Questions Effectively Dealing with questions from audience members can be one of the most difficult aspects ofpresenting your research. In addition to the pressure of speaking in front of a crowd of your academic peers, presentation questions can often be difficult to answer for a number of reasons: communication difficulties, lack of […]

Most spellcheck and grammar check programs are useful, but they are far from perfect. An author might have spelled a word correctly but used it incorrectly, or we might have used the wrong homonym. These are issues that free grammar and spelling tools are not likely to correct. Raise your hand if you’ve been guilty […]

When to Use the Active or Passive Voice in Research Writing One decision thatgives pause to thousands of beginning researchers is whether to use the active or passive voice in their research papers. You may have been taught in school that you should always use the active voice, especially when giving speeches and when writing […]

As we continue our series on reducing wordiness and improving your writing, we will shift our focus to the dreadful prepositions that plague everyone! For many of you reading our posts, English is a second language, and we can imagine how much you despise memorizing prepositional phrases. Well, we’ve got a bit of good news […]

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You spend a lot of time conducting research. When it’s time to submit your manuscript, however, you have to play a frustrating game of “submit and wait.” The golden rule of publication ethics is to never submit your draft paper to more than one journal at a time. This can easily translate into weeks or […]

Writing a great college admissions essay is the result of a long, multi-step process. You must organize your goals, keep track of your progress,research sample essays, andavoid writing mistakes. And you need to do it all by your deadline. Most students can do the research and the writing on their own. Unfortunately, many students do […]