Electronic sources are becoming more and more commonplace these days, but unfortunately, many have no idea how to cite them in their academic papers. This blog will cover one type of electronic source, the video, and show you how to cite it properly. Most commonly, people encounter difficulty citing a movie in their English writing […]
How to Accept or Reject Changes in Track Changes
While editing you will not want to accept a Tracked Change, because this means the original text can no longer be retrieved in your edited version. This could be problematic if the client wished to restore his original text. On the other hand, sometimes it is useful to be able to reject a Tracked Change, […]
How to use parentheses
Parentheses, they sit there, on your keyboard the simple set of symbols that always come in pairs. For British readers, you’ll probably know them as brackets and they are wonderful little marks of punctuation. They can be used in a variety of ways, you probably see them a lot, but do you know how to […]
How to Use the Chicago Manual of Style in English Writing
When writing research papers or academic texts, you will most likely be required to use a specific style guide determined by your department or specialization and perhaps your school. There are three main style guides we use in academic writing: The American Psychological Association (APA) guide, which emphasizes dates; the Modern Language Association’s formatting, which […]
Using Parentheses
Parentheses are among the more easily-recognizable punctuation marks. We see them when we read fiction, when we are going through instruction manuals, and we use them in math from a fairly early age. In writing, the primary purpose of parentheses is to include material without placing an emphasis on it, something that wouldn’t normally fit […]