By now you should be settled into the fall routine and ready to tackle some of those projects that you have been putting off during the warmer weather and days of vacation. Whether it is a work project that has been sitting on a back burner, a paper from summer school that you got an extension for, or the first assignment for a new professor this semester, you want to make sure that you put your best foot forward. Over the past few weeks we have provided writing tips on activ

This is week two in our six-week series on common writing pitfalls. Our years of proofreading and editing experience have shown us that there are common errors in most English manuscripts, and we want to share these important secrets with you so that your writing can stand out from your peers. Last week we addressed the issue of active voice versus passive voice, and for the next two weeks we are discussing punctuation—periods and commas. Such small and seemingly insignifican

For the next six weeks we will be posting content that has been derived from our years of experience proofreading and editing work for our clients. Specifically, we will explore some of the most common pitfalls that we encounter in the work that we process. The first pitfall that we see often is this—passive versus active voice. Now, many English speakers will have no idea what this means. Our generation has been educated in English literature, but not English grammar. It was