Reporting Research

The Importance of Preparation The quotation, “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend four sharpening my axe,” has been attributed to Abraham Lincoln. Whether or…

Problems and Questions The terms research question and research problem are used interchangeably to reference the problem or issue you intend to investigate and/or solve with your…

An Increasing Need for Academic Translation As open access publishing offers greater availability of journals from around the globe, the need for accurate translation of academic…

The Purpose of a Literature Review The key to any research study is the research question itself. A poorly written question that is too broad will generate questionable…

According to linguists, the earlier forms of English did not have articles to accompany nouns as the necessary information concerning number and specificity were conveyed…

Since the recession of 2009, research funding in the United States has become increasingly partisan and risk averse. As a result, funding for basic research (also known as pure or…

Pronouns are simple to define but can be confusing to use. For example, the statement, "Each person should follow their dreams," represents a failure to correctly balance the…

What are Citation Metrics? The extent to which a research paper or academic text is cited in other pieces of academic work such as papers, thesis, dissertations, or other texts…

Throughout history there always seems to have been a predominant language for communication. Greek once served this role in the ancient Mediterranean until it was displaced by…

Capital Compensation When writers are looking to emphasize a word, but they’re not sure if they should bold it, underline it, italicize it, or upper case it, the go-to action…

When Charles Dickens wrote the opening sentence to A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” he was employing a literary tool called parallelism…

The English language has always been a promiscuous borrower of words from other languages, and for scientific writing, Latin has been one of the most common sources. Currently,…