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APA In-Text Citation Guide for Research Writing

Why Use In-Text Citation? When writing a journal article, literature review, convention paper, or any other academic document, authors must...

Oct 15, 2018 | Updated: Jun 16, 2020 85,398

How to Introduce Evidence and Examples: 41 Effective Phrases

Research requires us to scrutinize information and assess its credibility. Accordingly, when we think about various phenomena, we examine empirical...

Jul 4, 2017 | Updated: Jun 16, 2020 202,741

How to Order Author Names and Why That Matters

It’s rare that an article is authored by only one or two people anymore. In fact, the average original research...

Jun 28, 2017 | Updated: Jun 3, 2020 250,351

A Researcher’s Guide to Citations: listing authors and using “et al.”

We publish because we want to share our knowledge and, often, because we want recognition for our work. We acknowledge...

Jun 23, 2017 | Updated: Apr 23, 2020 25,350

Which Tense Should Be Used in Abstracts: Past or Present?

Many of you have asked us questions about seemingly conflicting rules about which tense to use in a research article...

Nov 18, 2016 | Updated: Jun 16, 2020 132,270

Scientific Writing: A Verb Tense Review

If you’ve been wondering about which verb tense to use in your research papers, below is a quick cheat sheet...

Oct 24, 2016 | Updated: Jun 16, 2020 29,582

Common Mistakes in Writing the Results Section

In this part of our series on drafting a strong journal manuscript, we’ll give you tips on how to write...

Oct 8, 2016 | Updated: Aug 22, 2020 13,088

How to Explain Research Methods Clearly for Reproducibility

Scientists and academics publish research to share new findings and increase the public and research community’s understanding of a variety of...

Sep 28, 2016 | Updated: Aug 22, 2020 24,636

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