Avoid These Common Grammatical Errors in Your Paper
Researchers truly feel a sense of worth when their manuscript gets published. However, a researcher’s heart can sink when a manuscript is rejected due to grammatical errors. This…
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Avoid Long Subjects in Academic Writing
Academic writing can be difficult for researchers. Expressing important ideas found in the research can be a difficult task. A lack of clarity can even lead to a manuscript being…
When to Use Asterisks in Academic Writing
Imagine a graduate student writing an important paper on bioethics or psychoanalysis having a difficult time stating an idea. How can she mark this important idea? She thinks about…
How to Avoid Phrasal Verbs in Academic Writing
You use phrasal verbs daily while speaking. A phrasal verb is actually a verb made up of two or more words: the main verb with an adverb or preposition, or both. Using these words…
How to Use Adverbs Effectively in Journal Manuscripts
Adverbs, the lesser known offspring of adjectives and verbs, are words that modify the original meaning of their parents – the adjective and the verb. Adverbs in scientific writing…
Importance of Punctuation in Research Papers (Part 3)
We’ve already covered the basics of periods, commas in the first article, and those of semicolon, colon and quotation marks in the second article of this series. Now, it’s time to…
We Vs. They: Using the First & Third Person in Research Papers
Writing in the first, second, or third person is referred to as the author’s point of view. When we write, our tendency is to personalize the text by writing in the first person.…
How Coherence in Writing Facilitates Manuscript Acceptance
Coherence is an essential quality for good academic writing. In academic writing, the flow of ideas from one sentence to the next should be smooth and logical. Without cohesion,…
Importance of Punctuation in Research Papers (Part 2)
As we saw in the first article of this series, punctuation is important because it helps your reader understand the writing clearly. Research papers often contain complex ideas and…
Manuscript Drafting: Why is Subject-Verb Agreement Important?
In academic writing, grammar and sentence construction are of paramount importance. While this is also true for informal pieces of writing, grammar mistakes in academic writing can…
Incomplete Comparisons: “I Ate More” Vs. “I Ate More than He Did”
As an author, your biggest mission is to communicate information to your readers clearly and precisely. Academic writers often use comparisons to highlight the importance of a…
When to Use “e.g.” and “i.e.” While Writing Your Paper
We see them often in text, usually in parentheses, and we can usually figure out the context from the text before them, but what do those letters mean? The abbreviation “e.g.”…