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Common App Prompt #7: Share an Essay on Any Topic of Your Choice
While the Common App provides highly broad topics for its required 650-word essay, it’s possible that you have a story you want to narrate t…
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Common App Essay Prompt #3: Challenging a Belief or Idea
The college admissions essay gives you the opportunity to share aspects about yourself not otherwise reflected through grades and test score…
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When to Use an Oxford Comma in Academic Writing
Are you new to the Great Comma Debate? Are you a firm believer in the usage of the Oxford comma or do you think it’s a waste of space and in…
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How to Write a Rebuttal Letter After Rejection from a Journal
What is a Rebuttal Letter? After submitting your manuscript to a journal (along with your journal submission cover letter), journal editors …
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Avoid Negative Words and Double Negatives to Strengthen Your Writing
We all know that the obvious double negatives (e.g., not + nobody, no one, never, etc.) are grammatically incorrect. You might be surprised,…
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Matching Your Manuscript to a Journal’s Aim and Scope
In our last article on choosing a journal manuscript, we talked about the general factors you should consider when deciding which journals t…
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3 Ways to Increase Your Manuscript’s Chance of Acceptance
As a researcher, you spend countless hours pursuing answers to important questions about how our world works. This research consumes a signi…
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Common App Essay Prompt #2: Overcoming a Challenge or Setback
The college admissions process can be stressful, and drafting a 650-word essay that’s supposed to explain who you are can seem daunting. We …
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How to Make Your Writing More Interesting & Engaging
Once we grab our readers’ attention, a feat of its own, convincing them to continue reading is another challenge many writers face. This pro…
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How to Avoid Common Grammar Mistakes in Your Writing
Today, we continue our series on ways to improve your writing by examining another major problem we found in our client’s writing. After sty…
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Adjective Order Rules in English
Adjectives Adjectives are words that modify nouns. They give more information about people, animals, places, and things. For example: The la…
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How to Title a Manuscript for Journal Submission
Researchers and readers are first introduced to your journal article through its title and images. Think about when you browse social media,…
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