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: How should I respond to a supervisor/editor who thinks my technical writing is "too conversational?" My team and I are drafting a technical report to summarize the methods and results of a pilot
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: Why are papers printed in a two column format? Is there a reason or is it arbitrary/tradition?
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: What are the tricks to avoid repetition in writing? After some time of working on my research, I usually have a structured information of my results, which I can best describe in bullets/numbers.
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: How can I stop overusing "I" in my writing? I won't edit this question, so you can see how much I use it. The current count is 3 times. I've been told that the solution is to revise, revise,
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: What's the difference between academic and journalistic writing? I'm not talking about "boring" academic papers that are 99% science and 0% interesting. But in comments on a draft of my senior
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: Is it fine to use link shorteners for research paper citations? I'm curious about the "properness" of using shortened links (a la bit.ly or tinyurl) in research papers. I haven't been
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: Is extraneous language appropriate in academic writing? I teach a course in academic writing. My students, who do not have much writing experience, add many phrases, as in What are these extra
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: When using freewriting, should I avoid correcting typos? My university recommends Freewriting to all its postgraduate students as a daily exercises to help overcome writer's block. I tend to make
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: Is translating into another language plagiarism? I'm currently writing my Masters thesis in English. If I take some (small) German text snippets from some papers (I'm German-speaking) and just
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: Is using first person in academic/technical essays always bad? For as long as I can remember, my teachers have taught me never to use first person in an essay. Yet, some of the examples
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: Should I write an abstract for a formal essay? Should I write an abstract for a formal essay? I've heard from different sources that I should, although my instructor didn't specify. And if
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: Where to put counter-examples within a 5-paragraph essay? I am tutoring some students in the very basics of writing a 5-paragraph essay to present an argument, in preparation for more advanced
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: Can I assign actions to broad concepts? Whenever I write, I run into the problem where I have to assign human actions to subjects that, when I contemplate about it, cannot realistically perform
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: Best practice for academic writing: write and cite or write first? I'm an undergraduate student of psychology. My teachers assign writing assignments from time to time, and usually require some
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: How to write more clearly and with shorter sentences? I struggle with writing an awful lot and would like to improve. One of my main problems (and the reason why writing seems to take me
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: Quoting text from a country with different internationalization I'm writing my doctoral dissertation here in the United States, and quoting some text from an English-language paper written in Germany.
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: Is it good style to use Latin phrases in English scientific literature? I don't know how much and deep actual school kids in the US get in touch with Latin. In Europe you can choose it in
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: Interesting and easier-to-read alternatives to the scientific academic article Short version: What is an equally informative, but more interesting alternative to typical academic-article-style scientific
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: How Important are essay writing conventions in the university level and above? I go to a CEGEP, which is basically pre-university in Montreal. In my Introduction to English class, I had a teacher
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: Struggling to writing in English I always struggle to write my ideas in English. Structuring my work/idea when it comes to writing leaves me blank. Even when I'm very clear about what I want
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: Can I use the passive voice to avoid referring to myself in a scientific report? I'm writing a report for a piece of University coursework, but I understand that I should avoid referring to
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: Should I cite a source that cites an older source? I am writing a scientific research paper and one of the sources I am using introduced a concept which I am using within the paper. The
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: Is Academic Ghostwriting legal? I recently learned of the concept of academic ghostwriting (see, e.g. this article) - by which I mean the situation where a student goes to another person, or
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: How to number the equations in an academic paper? I know that the figures and tables are numbered consecutively throughout the while paper. What about the equation numbering? Suppose I have four
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: So, where do I begin? Where can an absolute newcomer to the discipline of writing begin to learn about the various types and genres of writing so as to become able to identify them simply
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: Can anyone become a good writer? Is it possible to become an Ernest Hemingway? Sure, someone can learn to spell, put punctuation in the right places, and keep his sentences down to twenty words.
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: What do you do to prevent dips during which you're not writing anything? I'm currently a student and I write non-fiction every day. I've committed myself to writing 1000 words every day, and
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: Writing a bibliography In the formats I've seen for writing a bibliography, the author is always put first, and then the title. Are there some bibliographies where the title is put before the
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: Can I use "We" to refer to me and the reader? I am writing my thesis and in many cases I want to take the reader through an example. For example: Besides the advanced composition rules,
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: What should you do if you need more than five heading when writing an APA paper? (I don't know if this question is appropriate here. I'm going to take a chance.) If you're writing a paper
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: How to improve my skill at writing a question? I'm a member of some SE sites, like SO and CSTheory. In those sites I'm an active member, I'm reading Q&A and also answering some questions
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: How do I determine if a paper has been plagiarized? Is there a service which allows you to check if a paper/article was plagiarized? At this moment, I use Google to check if some papers are
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: How to get over writer's block related to revising? I'm a PhD Student in the social sciences. When I do focused free-writing on a topic, my thoughts just fly out and I can easily generate
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: How can I help a writing-phobic but competent student develop their writing? I am a professor in a science department and I am working with a student that has significant anxiety about writing,
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: Do I include the method of my research in the title? For my Masters Thesis, I am trying to find an appropriate title. The field of the research is in Forestry and Geographic Information Science
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: From Markdown to .odt and vice-versa: a possible distraction-free writing workflow? I'm writing a master thesis (Sociology) and I'm really penalized by distractions. I would happily shift to a
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: When is it acceptable to refer to an undefined group of people in academic writing? Within my students' college writing, I found much writing referring to essentially imaginary, or not well-defined
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: Are there straightforward instructions for MS WORD 2013 for numbering in different formats, yet maintaining a chronological count? I have a master's thesis in the humanities undergoing its final
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: Copyright issue when referring to a textbook I'm currently writing a little book which explains all equations that first year students will use. There is a law that requires many assumptions
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: What are some tricks for managing debilitating writing anxiety/phobia? For the past 4 years, I've developed a severe problem with writing anxiety. It's become so bad, that I had to drop out
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