Punctuation after quotations
In American English (and in some cases for British English), punctuation following a bit of quoted text is…
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Discussing Existing/Proposed/Future Work
Discussing existing work
Whenever you bring up an existing piece of research, whether it is your own or someone…
Guidelines Specific to Academic Writing
Formatting and grammar rules
When in doubt about grammar or page format, researchers in psychology and computer…
Rules for Formal Academic Writing
Rules for formal writing are quite strict, though often unstated. Formal writing is used in academic and scientific…
Word-Level Issues in Academic Writing
Try hard to avoid ambiguous references
Conversation is replete with ambiguous words like "this", "these", "his",…
A Checklist of Academic Writing Features
Academic writing in English is linear, that means it has one central point or theme with every part contributing to…
Informal vs. Academic Language
Informal Speaking Vocabulary
Academic Writing Vocabulary
What is the difference?a lot of…
Six Features of Academic Writing
One of the problems students run into is that they are often expected by their professors to produce a reasonably…
Rules and Conventions of Academic Writing
The details in this hand-out are based on material first developed by Hazel Hall at Queen Margaret University…
Myths about Academic Writing
Though I don’t imagine an episode of MythBusters will be based on the misconceptions about writing we are about to…