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It’s Not ‘Ironic’, It’s Important: Five Ways to Use Typographic Emphasis in Academic Writing
Typographic emphasis is a useful tool in academic writing because it offsets a word for special consideration from the rest of the text visually, conveying to the reader how a word should be read without explicitly stating it—something easily done in speech or via body language but that needs special treatment in text, usually done through quotation marks, italics, boldface and capitalization.
Parallelism Is More Than Just Good Writing
Parallelism is often cited as a sign of good writing—and for good reason. Parallelism does a great job of tying together a series of ideas and items through parallel syntax. In parallelism, there is an agreement between verb, noun, adjective, and adverb form that is not only good grammar but, when used effectively, draws attention to what is being written.
Best Collocation Resources for 2021
Through many years of proofreading excellent research papers, I have learned many an English word from non-native academics. So many in fact that I have often wondered how they developed such a rich vocabulary. After a time it dawned on me that their dictionaries, thesauruses, and translators were hard at work finding the perfect word. And while sometimes those tools came up with words that worked perfectly, other times, they just didn’t sound right to my native ear. And this usually boiled down to one thing: collocations.