APA style is very particular about formatting for headings and subheadings. I personally love structure, so I prefer APA’s style requirements over the Chicago Manual’s loosey-goosey, “do-what-you-want-just-be-consistent” requirements. Here’s what… Read More »How to Use Heading Styles for an APA Dissertation
A relative clause is a clause, with a subject and a verb, that describes a noun in another clause. Check out the phrase “that got away” in this line from… Read More »The Rules for “That” and “Which” in Relative Clauses
Verbs that end in -ing, or V+ing verbs, can never be the stand-alone, main verb in a sentence. That doesn’t mean that they don’t have their uses, though. In fact,… Read More »Using V+ing Verbs as Verbs, Adjectives, or Nouns
Styles are hugely helpful. To be honest, though, I didn’t understand their importance until I started editing. When I was writing my own papers for grad school, I never used… Read More »DIY Formatting: Using Microsoft Heading Styles to Speed Up Your Dissertation