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What is Academic Writing? Academic writing is a broad term. It applies to all forms of communications at high academic level, including articles in peer-reviewed journals, university and college papers, and theses and dissertations. Despite a relatively broad spectrum of academic fields and the versatility...

In academic writing, it’s conventional to back up your statements and ideas with quotations. As you are editing your paper, you need to think about how to contextualize them and how to set them out. The first challenge is to weave your quotations neatly into your text. Think about the range of verbs...

Should I write “20th century” or “twentieth century”? Is it okay to put “the 1990s” or should I write “the nineties”? With a bewildering range of examples on the internet, in books and in periodicals, simple answers to questions about style can seem elusive. Anyone writing or editing papers, articles,...

While hiring a professional editor is a great route to take, perhaps that isn’t an option easily available to you. Or perhaps you want to edit your own work before it goes to your professional editor in order to get the most out of the money you invest in editing. No matter the reason, knowing how to...

This article explains what is Track Changes in Microsoft Word. Track Changes are the best feature in Word. Found under the Review tab, this icon is an editor’s best friend. These allow us to see the changes that we have made, as well as allowing the client to review and choose the changes they would...