White papers, so named because they usually are published in pamphlets/booklets on white paper, are heavily researched papers that are presented either to the government or a field-specific authority on a particular topic. The idea behind the white paper is that it is used to educate the paper’s readers and enable them to help solve […]
What are book citations?
What exactly are book citations? For that matter, what are citations, period? Starting with the last question, citations are a way of acknowledging your source, and they’re usually used in academic works—research papers, theses, dissertations and journal articles. If John Jones wrote a book titled “The effective use of white space in advertising” and you […]
When to Use a Colon
Few punctuation marks confound as much as one that should be one of the simplest, the colon. Use of the colon has many writers scratching their heads. It’s either not used when it should be, or used way more often than it should be. Normally, it’s the last thing a writer will even think about, […]