Writing Nonfiction: Direct Quotations, Paraphrases
When writing nonfiction books or academic papers, you’ll likely needed to include the thoughts and observation of experts to bolster your positions or explain your points. These experts’ statements…
All too often when beginning authors think about what they’re writing, they scowl and wonder why they even bother. Their writing, they surmise, is horrible – poor cadence, clunky dialogue, dul…
So much confusion exists over which version of these words (referring to a six-sided object used in games) is singular and plural, that many people just cast their fate to the wind.And, as if at a …
• Crack a joke – but only for a good reasonJust as in real life when humor is used to ease tension in social situations or to bond with another person, so jokes and comedy serves a purpose in your …
One of the new writing trends among self-published authors is to end their novel on a cliffhanger. The idea is that this will generate interest in purchasing the author’s next novel, which is …