I've written this glossary as a convenient reference point for some of the more common grammatical terms, especially for writers wanting to brush up on their explicit knowledge in this…
According to the Chicago Manual of Style, the comma is one of the most versatile of punctuation marks and indicates "the smallest interruption" in the train of thought that makes…
Argumentation at its best, in writing, and especially in academic writing, requires an approach that forgoes the appeals to emotion and rhetorical trickery that are often effective in face-to-face interactions in favour of a more systematic and sober approach...
Good sentence structure comes fairly naturally to native speakers of English. Another way of putting that is that they have an implicit knowledge of it—they can make proper structures but may not be able to explain how that works...
An academic abstract is a short but comprehensive summary of an article. It helps the reader to quickly understand what an article is about and also allows those searching for relevant…