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What is a Thesis Statement? Thesis statements are found right at the start of a thesis or dissertation, usually in the first couple of sentences. Informative and captivating, a thesis statement is similar to a hook line in a novel, though specific enough to detail the strict path the thesis will follow. A...

Famed horror writer Stephen King famously told The Wall Street Journal, “The thing is, I don’t outline, I don’t have whole plots in my head in advance.” It’s clearly worked for him with more than 60 titles to his name, and many are bestsellers and movies. However, the well-known writer of The Firm and...

If you ever find yourself stuck in your research project, there’s no need to panic⎯we can make use of many different techniques to become unstuck. As they say, where there’s a problem, there’s always a solution; all you need to do is recognize what is holding you back and move forward as best you can. Are...

My name is Dr. Jeff, and I am one of the editors at FirstEditing. Before my editing career, I was an academic, conducting historical research and publishing in peer-edited journals. I would spend hours in archives, poring over documents for the minutest details that perhaps might have been overlooked...

Location Split – Improve Your Story WritingLocation split just means that a location within a scene has changed. For example, the scene begins inside a house, and the next piece of the scene is in a taxi; that would be a location split. The location split is very important when reading a manuscript,...