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Font Styles & Their Appropriate Uses
Since the days of using Notepad on an old computer in my parents’ office to write little stories, I remember the vast variety of font styles available on the computer. Because I was more enthralled by the tales flourishing from my fingertips, I didn’t typically use outrageous fonts; however, when I went through a phase…
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My Favorite Citation Guide
As an English major and as a college student in general, I know firsthand that composing citations is dreadful. I generally anticipate that writing my works cited page (the page at the end of an essay listing one’s sources) will take at least 30 minutes, especially if any of the sources are less tangible than…
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Ethos & Editing: Part 1
I’ve worked on my English undergraduate degree on and off for six years, and while I’ve been trained in digital rhetoric and work in a studio at school, I’m finally taking a traditional rhetoric course titled “History and Theory of Rhetoric.” Rhetoric is so crucial to effective writing that many rhetorical concepts are notions I understood…
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Tutorial: Lists
Welcome to today’s grammar tutorial. We will discuss a few aspects of the grammar in lists with the most crucial aspect being parallelism. Lists can use every part of speech–nouns, adjectives, verbs, etc. After reviewing the basics of lists, we’ll apply those lessons to editing complex sentence structures. Lists & Word Classes When you list…
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Tutorial: Subject-Verb Agreement
Welcome to another grammar tutorial. Today, we will discuss subject-verb agreement. Subject-verb agreement means making sure the subject (who/what the sentence is about) is properly matched to the verb (action the subject is taking) in a sentence. This lesson is fundamental to English skills, and many English speakers would recognize subject-verb disagreements in conversation, even…
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Tutorial: Commas
Hello again, and welcome to the first in a series of grammar/editing tutorials. If you read my previous posts, you know how much I value editing in producing good writing. I hope this series helps you improve your editing skills and enables you to feel more confident with your finished work. As a first step…
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Embrace Rough Drafts
When I was a freshman in college, I read excerpts from a book in English 101 titled Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott. While it contains great advice, I admit that I’ve struggled to follow it over the years. As I plunge deeper into the realm of editing, I…
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Introduction
I’ve been driven to read and write my entire life. From elementary school to high school, I was one of the kids who loved book fairs for more than the crazy pens and erasers. While many of my peers fidgeted with every gadget by the register or immediately gravitated to the graphic novel section, I…
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