Writing Tips

Assure means promising to overcome fear or insecurity. Ensure means making sure something happens. Insure means financially protecting assets through insurance.

Affect vs Effect - In most cases, affect works as a verb as it influences or impacts something. Usually, effect works as a noun. It is the result of an impact or an action on…

Rare vs Scarce - ‘Rare’ means unique. It indicates that the frequency of something happening or existing is less. Moreover, all scarce items are not rare! At times, non-rare or…

While few connotes a negligible quantity or an insignificantly small number, a few signifies 'some' or 'a handful.'

Precede vs Proceed - Precede means to happen before something or to go in front of someone. Proceed means to continue or to go/move forward.

Most of us interchange the phrases in this paper and in this study quite liberally. Both phrases help the author to set the context and are usually used within the premises of…

Adsorption vs Absorption - Both involve interaction between substances. Absorption is a bulk phenomenon, while adsorption occurs only on the surface of a material.

Lynne Truss, the author of the well-known English grammar book Eats Shoots & Leaves, once said “There are people who embrace the Oxford comma, and people who don't, and I'll…

In part 1 of this article, we talked about what a research paper is and how to get started writing one. Now, you have reviewed the requirements for the paper in detail. You’ve…

So you’ve been asked to write a research paper. What is a research paper anyway? A research paper is a paper that demonstrates your knowledge of a subject. While the format of a…

Have you ever wondered what “et al.” means in a citation? Abbreviations like “etc.,” “et al.," "e.g.," i.e.," and "ibid." are seen very often in academic writing, but many people…

Have you found yourself reading something and then retracing a sentence? Sensing that you missed something? On re-reading, you find that you were right! The sentence is incomplete.…