Writing style and grammar
Continuity and Flow
Conciseness and clarity
Verbs
Pronouns
Sentence construction
Strategies to improve your writing
Importance
Transitions
Noun strings
Importance
Wordiness and redundacy
Setence and paragraph length
Tone
Contractions and colloquialism
Jargon
Verb tense
Active and pasive voice
Mood
Subject and verb agreement
1st vs 3rd person pronouns
Editorial "we"
Singular "they"
Who vs Whom
Subordinate conjuctions
Misplaced and dangling modifiers
Parallel construction
Tips
Reading to learn through example
Writing from an outline
Revising a paper
Rereading the draft
Working with copyeditors and writing centers
Seeking help from colleages
Effective writing is charactized by continuity and flow
A work that lacks them may seem confusing and disorganize
Explain relationships between ideas clearly and and present ideas in a logical order
Punctuation marks
Transitional words and phrases (time links, cause-effect, additional links and contrast links)
Several nouns placed one after another to modify a final noun
It makes the paper more readable
Ensures that the reader understands your paper
Wordiness can impede readers' understanding by forcing them to sort through unnecessary words to decipher your ideas
wordiness refers to using more words than are necessary, redundancy means using multiple words with the same meaning,
Varied sentence length helps readers maintain interest and comprehension.
There are not max or min sentence length in APA style
Use language that conveys professionalism and formality
Avoid them at all cost, they detract from a professional tone in scholarly writing
Contractions can be appropriately used in some circumstances, such as in reproducing a direct quotation that contains a contraction
Avoid colloquialisms, which are informal expressions used in everyday speech and writing
It is specialized terrninology that is unfamiliar to those outside a specific group
Overusing it hinders comprhension
Vigorous, direct communicators
The past tense express an action that ocurried at an specific timein the past, meanwhile the present tense express a past action or condition that did not occur
at a specific
Voice describes the relationship between a verb and the subject and object associated with it
In the active voice, the subject of a sentence is presented first, followed by the verb and then the object of the verb
In the passive voice, the object of the verb is presented first, followed by the verb and then the subject last
Mood refers to the form of a verb authors use to express their attitude toward what they are saying
A verb must agree in number with its
subject, regardless of intervening phrases
To avoid ambiguity in attribution, use the first person rather than the third person when describing the work you did as part of your research and when expressing your own views
Avoid the editorial "we" in multiauthored papers because readers may wonder whether you are referring to all people, membersof your professional group(s), or yo urs elf and your coauthors
Also use "they" as a generic third-person singular pronoun to refer to a person whosegender is unknown or irrelevant to the context of the usage.
Use "who" as the subject of a verb and "whorn" as the object of a verb or a preposition