Time to Write
Now that you have the knowledge about the most common errors students in the U.S. make, think about your own writing. Which of these errors have you struggled with? The next step is to...
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Chicago Notes & Bibliography
The following pages feature sample citations using the Turabian method, otherwise known as Chicago-style. Each example includes: 1) a sample endnote or footnote for the first time a work is cited, 2) a shortened...
Chicago Formatting Guidelines
The Chicago Manual of Style is primarily intended for authors of book-length works and for those publishing academic journal articles. When it comes to student essays, The Chicago Manual of Style uses the Turabian...
MLA Works Cited
Formatting Sources at the End of Your Paper With the 2016 update (8th edition), MLA changed and simplified the way your Works Cited entries should be formatted. Instead of offering a specific way to format...
Time to Write
It’s now your turn to complete revision and editing for your research paper. Be sure to work on revision first, as you may make significant changes to your content. There is no point editing...
What Is Plagiarism?
Open Access But a lot of text on the Internet is “open access.” Can’t I use it? No! A lot of text on the internet is freely available. It may be labeled as “open...
Plagiarism is Serious!
In the United States, any form of plagiarism is considered to be a dishonest and serious offense. The author of any writing is considered to “own” those words. So to use another person’s words, ideas,...
Documentation Error
Most of the writing mistakes we’ve covered so far can be found in all kinds of writing. Documentation errors, however, are specific to academic writing where you’re quoting and citing sources. They’re one of...
Pronoun Reference
Pronoun reference errors give a lot of beginning writers trouble. A pronoun reference error occurs when you use a pronoun like he or she, and it’s not clear what that pronoun refers to. Here is an...
Spelling
In the age of spell checkers, it’s hard to imagine that spelling errors would make the most common error list, but they do. First, it’s important to remember to run the spell checker when...