Conciseness in Academic Writing: How to Prune Sentences
In academic writing (or in writing in general), wordiness is hardly next to Godliness. Writers often tend to express themselves in a convoluted manner using weak words that fail to…
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Nominalization and Clarity: Ensuring the Right Balance in Academic Writing
Although research would significantly benefit from clear and direct writing, it often becomes crucial to adhere to a certain style of writing, in this case academic style, which…
Importance of Punctuation in Research Papers (Part 1)
Why is Punctuation Important?
Writing formally in English is more than just choosing the right words in the right order.
Using punctuation in your writing helps the reader to…
Instructions to Authors – for Beginners (Part 2)
In our last post, we talked about the purpose and criteria of journals. Here we will discuss the actual preparation of the manuscript, rightly called "Manuscript Preparation." We…
Instructions to Authors – for Beginners (Part 1)
Most journals list the scope and audience of the journal on their homepage itself, and that’s the page most authors visit when first perusing a journal. However, authors must…
How to Write an Abstract Within a Word Limit (Part 2)
In our last article, we covered all points related to writing the best first draft of an abstract and following the “avoid” checklist. Now, let’s move on to next step, where we’ll…
How to Write an Abstract Within a Word Limit (Part I)
What is an Abstract in a Research Paper?
An abstract is a self-contained, short, and powerful statement that covers the main points of a piece of writing. Unlike executive…
Commonly Confused Prepositions
While prepositions are limited in number, they are important because they act as vital markers to the structure of a sentence; they mark special relationships between persons,…
Understanding the Usage of “Majority”
Like an indivisible nucleus at the center of an atom, the subject-verb pair unifies the sentence. It can be surrounded by any number of modifying words, taking on new shades of…
Why Is It Important to Use Gender-Inclusive Language in Academic Writing?
The pseudo generic “he,” that is, the usage of “man” to denote all of humanity assumes that the default and normal human being is male. While there are more pressing issues in the…
Why English Language Editing Is Imperative for Non-Native Speakers
English is the lingua franca of the world and is one of the six official international languages of the United Nations. While the spread of English has a somber colonial past, its…
Instructions to Authors – for Beginners (Part 3)
In our last post, we spoke about preparing the manuscript for submission to a particular journal. As the next step, this article discusses the typical process to submit a…