Editing your own work to help you refine your writing skills and learn more about your own style and habits. It has a critical eye to your own writing means that you acknowledge both your strengths and your weaknesses and can tailor your efforts to focus on areas requiring further improvement. Before you hire publishers [...]

Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Psychological Association (APA) are common style guides used for writing academic papers. Where MLA is primarily used in the liberal arts, and humanities; APA is used within social sciences (e.g. psychology, education, sociology).
Before you begin writing your college paper, your professor will advise you of the style that [...]

Creating a great essay can help pave the way to a brighter future for you. Learn how to write an engaging college essay to make your application stand out!
Most college essay questions are designed as a way for colleges to learn more about you. This is your chance to tell colleges more about yourself. The [...]

Editing, whether it is for an academic journal, a short story submission, or a non-fiction manuscript for publishing, always follows basic rules of grammar and punctuation. This blog will help you learn the basic rules of em dashes and ellipses, and how to use them accurately in your work. While this [...]

The first of a series of articles about technical editing …
Most commonly used in the liberal arts and humanities studies, MLA (Modern Language Association) style specifies guidelines for formatting manuscripts and using the English language in writing. MLA style provides writers with a system for referencing their sources through parenthetical citation in their essays and [...]