Rules for Formal Academic Writing" Rules for formal writing are quite strict, though often unstated. Formal writing is used in academic and scientific settings whenever...
Word-Level Issues in Academic Writing" Try hard to avoid ambiguous references Conversation is replete with ambiguous words like "this", "these", "his", "it", "they", etc....
Discussing Existing/Proposed/Future Work" Discussing existing work Whenever you bring up an existing piece of research, whether it is your own or someone else's, there is a...
Guidelines Specific to Academic Writing" Formatting and grammar rules When in doubt about grammar or page format, researchers in psychology and computer science generally...
Academic English: "I" and "we"!" Writing standards disagree about whether to use "I" and "we" (and their various forms) in academic work. Some argue that those personal...
Punctuation after quotations" In American English (and in some cases for British English), punctuation following a bit of quoted text is traditionally placed inside...
Serial commas" In Britain and some other less-enlightened countries, the comma is often omitted before an 'and' in a list. For instance, they will...
Commas after "i.e." and "e.g."" Many grammar books state that a comma is always required after "i.e." and "e.g." used in a sentence, as in "sentences often contain...