Editing

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

Even though using spellchecking functions and tools usually provided in the word processing package of choice seems rather obvious thing to do, not many writers

When writing a thesis or a dissertation, planning ahead really pays off. Although font styles, line spacing, alignment and other details can always be adjusted

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

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

In editing other people’s sentences we are frequently required to impose some order through the correct use of periods, exclamation marks and question marks. Below

English editing requires us to manage contractions correctly. For example, we may come across some dialogue with exchanges such as, “I ain’t saying Dr. Jones

Conjunctions are a word that joins phrases or parts of sentences. It is vital to know how to correctly use punctuation with conjunctions. The following

Even the native English speakers commonly make mistakes when it comes to using “I” vs. “me” in sentences. This is such a prevalent issue, that

When writing a thesis or an academic paper, we heavily rely on previously published sources. To avoid plagiarism, they have to be cited both in