by Dr. Lindeman | Feb 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
We are about a week out from Valentine’s Day, and there’s one particular L-word on everybody’s mind: Love. But as common and confusing as love is, it is not our focus today. No, today we are once again discussing the nuances of the English language, and how to avoid...
by Dr. Lindeman | Feb 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
In my last post, we learned about how to use however and nevertheless in your writing. We discussed contrastive sentence connectors and explained their place in crafting arguments. While these two words are the most common (and most misused)contrastive sentence...
by Dr. Lindeman | Feb 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
One of the most fundamental skills in writing is the ability to effectively compare two ideas. Luckily for us, the English language provides us with many tools. These are known as sentence connectors. They allow us to easily illustrate the relationship between ideas...
by Dr. Lindeman | Jan 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: It doesn’t matter how important your scientific paper is if nobody reads it. Like any other piece of writing, a scientific manuscript needs to be compelling and grab the reader quickly if you want them to read the rest. The...
by Dr. Lindeman | Jan 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
There is a peculiar type of homophone (a word that sounds identical to another but differs in meaning, and often spelling) in the English language that constantly trips up writers, even native English speakers. To the best of my knowledge, there is no particular term...
