List-Making Problems or What the Heck Is Parallel Structure?
The Internet is obsessed with lists these days. From the top 10 Hollywood dresses found the latest award event to 11 fun …
Does Your Writing Depend on Depends? Clean up This Messy Grammar Mistake.
You read that right. There are some sentences that depend on depends. And that stinks. Of course, I’m not really talking about …
Dressing Your Writing Assignment: Avoid These 3 Informal Words and Phrases
Most everybody knows that academic writing means formal writing. I’ll bet you’d never start a paper, “So, I was thinking about the …
5 Smart-Sounding Traps that Make You Look like a Newbie in Your College Writing
When working on a piece of college writing, naturally everyone wants to sound smart. Everyone wants the professor to be bowled over …