He said, she said: Reported speech and backshift of tenses
Citing and referencing sources
One of the primary, essential features of academic writing is that it takes place within the discourse, that is, it refers to previous research. Indeed, your references and sources often attract a great deal of attention from those reading your papers, as it is one...
Commas save lives
While most of us have certainly intensely discussed the comma rules that govern German punctuation in German class at school, fewer students have talked about guiding principles of English punctuation and when to use commas in written English. There is the...
Writing introductions
The introduction of your academic paper, regardless of the length, genre, or discipline in which you are writing, is your essential first impression. Recall that when you are reading others‘ work, the introduction is key to deciding how relevant the paper before...
Academic Writing: Contrasting – How to Describe Differences
In a previous post, I have written about how to describe similarities when you are asked to compare two periods/authors/novels/situations/… to one another. Of course, this raises the question of how to describe differences between any two or more things and how...
Academic Writing: Comparing – How to Describe Similarities
Many students often struggle with being repetitive when they write a term paper or an essay in which they want to compare two periods/authors/novels/situations/… to one another. In order to avoid repetitiveness, it is reasonable to employ various different...Gefördert vom
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