Top 10 mistakes that authors make: Advice from an insider at the American...
Since this blog claims to touch upon ‘not only writing (spelling, grammar, punctuation, usage, and style) but everything else relevant to publishing research papers that journal editors wish their...
View ArticleInseparable pairs of words, 1: ‘between’ and ‘and’
Stock phrases such as ‘hook, line, and sinker’, ‘lock, stock, and barrel’, ‘bits and pieces’, and ‘odds and ends’ contain words that always go together and are in the same order. Such words that are...
View ArticleInseparable pairs of words, 2: ‘from’ and ‘to’
Pairing ‘between’ with anything other than its legitimate partner ‘and’ is a more common error than not pairing ‘from’ with ‘to’. However, the second error is also frequent and typically involves...
View ArticleCleaning up your writing and polishing it
Books on writing generally fall into one of the following categories: catalogues of errors, broad advice on writing, and style guides or manuals. This series of blog posts has written about several in...
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