Writers Blog

Say you’ve been busy trying to write a novel, or a reference book or your autobiography. You’ve worked diligently for months or years to finally finish your book. Now it’s time to decide on a publisher for your writing, which is often a precise and painstaking process. It’s incredibly important to find...

These days most people are using the Internet to find the majority of the information for their articles, theses, dissertations and so on. This is fine, but it can be confusing when it comes to citing websites as sources. Reading a journal or newspaper article is fine as the author can still be cited...

You might be surprised to hear that the MLA format is still alive and well in English writing. This format is requested often for technical editing, and it is a tad trickier than other style guides because it differs in the use of basic formatting, quotations, and in-text citations, among others. By...

You’ve just completed a book that you are truly proud of, and, upon careful consideration, have decided that self-publishing would be the best way to proceed in bringing it out to your readers. This is increasingly becoming a path authors are opting for, and for a number of good reasons. For example,...

Quotations are tricky: you have to get them just right. Any word changes, punctuation mark alterations, editing or omissions need to be specially noted, otherwise you could be accused of misquoting or much worse. This guide will show you how to properly use quotations. To make changes in verb tenses...