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PROMPT #4: Reflect on something that someone has done for you that has made you happy or thankful in a surprising way. How has this gratitude affected or motivated you? All of the Common App Essay prompts ask students to showcase their character and strengths in some way. Essay Prompt #4is a little bit different […]

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 that doesn't fit within those categories. Fortunately, the Common App is once again using the "topic of choice" category for the 2021-2022 admissions season. You can write about whatever you want, as long as the paper is a personal statement.

The college admissions essay gives you the opportunity to share aspects about yourself not otherwise reflected through grades and test scores. Who are you? What are your values and dreams? Are you the type of person who will thrive in an academically and socially challenging environment as you transition into adulthood? The Common App Essay is […]

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 ink? The Great Comma Debate has been raging in academia for over a hundred years, and it still has yet to be settled. Hopefully, our […]

What is a Rebuttal Letter? After submitting your manuscript to a journal (along with your journal submission cover letter), journal editors might include some reasons in their response to the author explaining why the article was not immediately accepted in the journal and what the author must address to further prepare the article for re-submission. […]

We all know that the obvious double negatives (e.g.,not+nobody,no one,never, etc.) are grammatically incorrect. You might be surprised, however, by how we often inadvertently use other types of multiple negative words in a sentence. Doing so truly confuses everyone and makes readers work harder to grasp your message. For example, let’s look at the sentences […]

In our lastarticle on choosing a journal manuscript, we talked about the general factors you should consider when deciding which journals to target for submission. In this post, we will look more closely at another of these aspects: a journal’s aim and scope. What is a journal’s scope? “Scope,” simply stated, is the journal’s purpose […]

As a researcher, you spend countless hours pursuing answers to important questions about how our world works. This research consumes a significant amount of your time. Sadly, none of it matters when you have to face a sad truth: Your work’s merit is judged by whether and where your findings are accepted for publication. Several […]

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 hope that the following quick guide on how todraftacompelling response to the Common Appessay prompt#2 will help ease your burdens! For additional resources regarding other Common App essay prompts and the college […]

Once we grab our readers’ attention, a feat of its own, convincing them to continue reading is another challenge many writers face. This problem concerns not only novelists and marketers but also researchers like you. You devote countless hours conducting your investigation and are eager to share your findings with the world, but you’re not […]

Today, we continue our series on ways to improve your writing by examining anothermajor problem we found in our client’s writing. After style issues, grammatical errors comprised21% of all writing errors! In this post, let’s look at what mistakes were most common and how to fix them. We also provide you a curated list of […]

Adjectives Adjectives are words that modify nouns. They give more information about people, animals, places, and things. For example: The large man sitting beside me called for the flight attendant. The flight attendant was veryattentiveandpolite. Using adjectives is a powerful tool that makes your writing more vivid and descriptive. For example, compare the two sentences: […]