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...
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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 Common Error
Incomplete or Missing Documentation The third most common error on the list relates to proper documentation. It’s so important to remember to cite all borrowed information. No matter your documentation style, whether it is...
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 top the most common error list, but they do. First, it’s important to remember to run the spell checker. Even...
Quotation Error
Using quotation marks correctly can be a little tricky, especially when you need to use other types of punctuation with them. Mechanical errors related to quotation marks makes the most-common error list because beginning...
Unnecessary Comma
When beginning writers are first learning comma rules, they have a tendency to forget that the rules all depend upon the situation. So, when you learn to place a comma before a coordinating conjunction...
Capitalization
Some teachers blame text messaging. After all, how many times have you written out a quick text message, not worrying about where you need to capitalize? You, like many others, have probably done this...