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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...
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