Avoid the interrupting, comma
One more bit of advice to students this afternoon: If you wish to write forceful sentences, do not be a writer, who places a comma between the subject, and verb of a sentence, nor between parts of a compound verb or noun with, only two items, nor in the middle of, a prepositional phrase. (Remove the underlined […]
Do not use dictionary definitions in papers, unless you’re writing a paper about dictionaries
A word of advice to all students: in almost every subject, no matter what some teacher told you years ago, do not ever waste your time or words repeating a dictionary definition in an academic paper. Whatever Mr. Johnson’s and Mr. Webster’s successors wrote down is descriptive, not authoritative, and almost certainly it is useless […]