09
Apr
Avoiding Gender Stereotypes While Creating Characters
by Kate Blatter
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Books and other written forms continue to support outdated gender stereotypes. Fiction writers can help break this cycle. As a society, we’ve made great improvements...
10
Apr
Ambiguous Syntax Structure’s Impact on Autistic Readers
by Abbigail Clark
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We likely don’t think much about prosody and relative clauses when we read, but together they can greatly impact the way a sentence is read...
11
Apr
How Corpus Tools Can Help Language Learners Correct Errors
by Skyler Garrett
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Findings indicate that corpus tools can help language learners correct errors, but not all types of errors are corrected effectively. Corpus linguistics is a relatively...
11
Apr
How We Give Feedback Matters
by Xochitl Bott
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There are four stances to take when giving feedback to an author. Are editors choosing the right one? Have you ever received harsh feedback on...
15
Apr
To Peer Review or Not to Peer Review?
by Kyme Lambson
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Involving peers in the writing and review process will increase the enjoyability and quality of the writing. Editors of student writing often discover that the...
29
Oct
Preferences for Internet Publications
by Staff
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Scientific writers have become reliant on the internet as their main source of information, but what are their preferences for their publications? Since many scientists...
24
Nov
Who Should Be the Narrator of Your Story?
by Aidan Christian Hill
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In both fiction and nonfiction, the narrator affects how well the reader connects with a story, so choose wisely. Readers often try to connect with...
16
Nov
Why Some Review and Revision Processes Are Unsuccessful
by Maddy Abadillo
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The review process of technical reports is nothing but a source of frustration for many professionals; one study shows why this may be and how...
18
Nov
When to Print and When to Publish Electronically
by Avery Andros
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E-books have become increasingly popular in recent years. How can publishers decide whether an e-book or a print book will be more successful? In recent...
20
Nov
An Author’s Stylistic Use of Word Order and Punctuation: To Standardize or Not
by Abby Forrest
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Editors occasionally need to give stylistic advice in addition to making rule-based edits. Since there is no style guide for style, where do we begin?...
