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The methodology section of a long piece of academic writing can be very tricky. Researchers often have an intuitive, gut feel about what they want to find out and how they intend to do so. Having to define this in the technical terms of what often seems a very abstruse field of inquiry can present challenges....

Avoid Writing Mistakes in Texting Everyone’s a writer these days. The ubiquity of cell phones and texting means that the average kid has written the equivalent of several Moby Dicks and a War and Peace to boot by the time they turn twelve. All this writing includes plenty of mistakes in texting. Unfortunately,...

In the world of punctuation, there are many rules and usages. A period likes to stop, a comma can pause, and an exclamation mark can scream. So what is the purpose of quotation marks? They can give your writing a voice. We all learned in grade school how to use quotation marks, but after so many years...

Learn When to Underline a Title Although the content is always the most important aspect of your paper, its presentation matters as well. You must learn when to underline a title. Any errors or issues will draw attention away from what you want to say. While spelling and grammar check are the most obvious...

When I was in sixth grade, I won the class spelling bee. As I stood there, my teacher’s words—i before e except after c—echoed in my head. Then I confidently shouted, “Receive . . . R-E-C-E- I-V-E!” I was the kid who loved to read, and I devoured books like they were going out of style. In other words,...