Do Idioms Improve or Detract from Academic Writing?
When you think of popular English idioms—hit the nail on the head, kick the bucket, the last straw, see eye to eye, and so on—and examine the possible usage, you will find that…
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The Singular “They”: Controversial or Acceptable?
Changes in social perceptions can lead to changes in language and grammar, and perhaps nowhere has this been seen as clearly as with the usage of pronouns. While at one time he…
Master the Skills of Citing Business Sources in APA Style
Style guides provide guidelines for citations and references depending on the discipline. The American Psychological Association (APA) is one organization that provides the format…
Quick Guide to Biostatistics in Clinical Research: Hypothesis Testing
In this article series, we will be looking at some of the important concepts of biostatistics in clinical trials and clinical research. Statistics is frequently used to analyze…
Correct Positioning and Order of Writing Adjectives in English
If anyone has ever asked you to describe something, you most probably would have used an adjective (i.e., a word naming an attribute of a noun). In English, established phrase…
How to Avoid Faulty Parallelism in Academic Writing
The use of components in a sentence that is grammatically the same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter is called as parallelism. As an academic writer, it is…
Good Reference Management Tools for Manuscripts and Theses
All scientists know that to get published, they must have novel data. Therefore, when a researcher designs experiments and writes manuscripts, information and use of previous…
Graphical Abstracts for Presenting Results
A graphical abstract is used to sum up a manuscript’s results in one neat little package so that the person reading the research paper can see the results at a glance without…
Rapid Communication: Prestige and Priority in Scientific Publication
A Rapid Communication (RC) or Short Communication is a scientific paper that is published swiftly and is of a shorter length than an original research article. Scientists use this…
Decoding Revisions to the 8th Edition of the MLA Style Guide
There are many protocols in academic writing because of style guides that are focused towards a specific discipline. For example, the Chicago Manual of Style, created by the…
12 Tips to Reduce Manuscript Word Count
Have you experienced writing a manuscript that seems to go on and on, is exceedingly verbose, and repeats ideas and words throughout the document? Have you been asked to reduce the…
How to Write a Successful Research Proposal
A research proposal is essentially a plan for work in order to test a hypothesis or set of hypotheses in order to answer a research question. One of the most important things to…