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Avoid Fillers and Unnecessary Words to Improve Your Writing
Whether you’re writing a journal article, a research paper, a dissertation, or another kind of academic work, creating sentences that are strong and concise is important in conveying your message and arguments to your audience. In this article on writing and editing for wordiness (i.e., how to reduce word count), we focus on something you […]
Last Updated : Nov 14, 2022
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LinkedIn Profile Tips to Attract Employers
A strong and attractive LinkedIn profile is crucial for connecting with people in your network. Even more important for job-seekers, an outstanding profile will help you engage with your target audience of hiring professionals, including recruiters, HR staff, and hiring managers, as they scan the field of LinkedIn profiles for qualified candidates. Your profile should […]
Last Updated : Nov 27, 2022
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Parallelism Sentence Structure Mistakes in Writing
Acommon writing issue for many authors of essays and research papers is making sure to use parallel structure. In many ways, the English language operates like math. When we string words or phrases together, we must make sure that all parts are of “equal value.” That is, they must all be in the same form. […]
Last Updated : Dec 5, 2022
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How to Avoid Nominalizations and Improve Your Writing
In the first part of a series of editing tips, we will show you how to strengthen your writing effectively. The next few posts will cover the most frequent writing issues we see in our clients’ submissions–namely wordiness. We hope that these overviews and exercises help you reduce word count, clarify your writing, and improve […]
Last Updated : Dec 5, 2022
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Which Academic Editing Service is the Best?
Some academic editors are better than others Deciding whichacademic editing service to trust to edit and proofread youracademicand professionaldocumentsis difficult. The only sure way to discover the quality of any service is to send your document and your money and then wait anxiously to see what the editors will do to your precious work. But […]
Last Updated : Nov 14, 2022
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How to Strengthen Your Writing Style
If you’ve read our recently published 2016 annual report, in which we carefullyanalyzed our client’s writing habits, you may have noticed that awhopping 32% of all writing errors were style-related. In this article, we explore the style issues we found and provide you a curated list of some resources to help you combat these types […]
Last Updated : Nov 8, 2022
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How to Improve Your Writing: Eliminate Prepositions
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 […]
Last Updated : Nov 15, 2022
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3 Reasons to Get Editing For Your College Admissions Essays
According to research from the Pew Research Center, due to increasingly competitive enrollment, many colleges and universities must turn prospective students away in droves. If the competition to get into your school of choice is fierce, you need any edge that you can get. Anonline essay proofreading serviceis likely to help immensely. Here’s why. 1) […]
Last Updated : Sep 28, 2022
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What are the Most Common English Writing Errors?
Year upon year,Wordvice Editing Servicereceives tens of millions of words to edit from our academic and admissions editing clients. According to a 2016 study conducted by Wordvice (and a dataset of 9,000 papers and 12,000,000), the most common English writing errors are determiners, preposition use, and parallelism, among a few key others. How did we […]
Last Updated : Sep 28, 2022
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