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8 Ways to Avoid Negative Sentences and Strengthen Your Writing

We all know that the obvious double negatives (e.g., not + nobody, no one, never, etc.) are grammatically incorrect. You...

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Avoid These 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...

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How to Strengthen Your Writing Style

If you’ve read our recently published 2016 annual report, in which we carefully analyzed our client’s writing habits, you may have...

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What are the Most Common English Writing Errors?

Year upon year, Wordvice Editing Service receives tens of millions of words to edit from our academic and admissions editing...

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How to Correctly Use Articles (a, an, the) in Your Writing

In a recent study we conducted to analyze our clients’ writing mistakes, we discovered that our clients frequently misused determiners...

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How to Avoid Parallelism in Writing

A common writing issue for many authors of essays and research papers is making sure to use parallel structure. In...

Last Updated : Dec 3, 2020 19,140

40 Easily Confused Words Authors Should Know

Most spellcheck and grammar check programs are useful, but they are far from perfect. An author might have spelled...

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Avoid Fillers to Write More Powerful Sentences

Whether you’re writing a journal article, a research paper, a dissertation, or another kind of academic work, creating strong and...

Last Updated : Nov 11, 2020 59,457

How to Improve Your Writing: Eliminate Prepositions

As we continue our series on reducing wordiness and improving your writing, we will shift our focus to the dreadful...

Last Updated : Sep 1, 2020 33,679

How to Improve Your Writing: Avoid Nominalizations

In the first part of a series of editing tips, we will show you how to strengthen your writing effectively....

Last Updated : Oct 26, 2020 36,987

How to Order Adjectives 101

Adjectives Adjectives are words that modify nouns. They give more information about people, animals, places, and things. For example:...

Last Updated : Jul 29, 2020 7,016

The Great Comma Debate: When to Use an Oxford Comma

Are you new to the Great Comma Debate? Are you a firm believer in the usage of the Oxford comma...

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