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Avoiding the Passive Voice
Some professors discourage their students from using the passive voice when writing research papers and essays. But using the passive voice is not grammatically incorrect. The main reason instructors...
September 22, 2014
Writing anxiety and how to cope
Everyone knows about test anxiety: the sweaty palms, racing heart, and sinking sense of forgetting everything you know when confronted with an exam. However, the same kind of anxiety...
October 6, 2014
Cultivating your Writing Skills
A common complaint amongst students is that many of the skills they are required to perform in the classroom are not relevant to the modern-day workforce. However, this is...
October 16, 2014
The Importance of Rewriting
It has been said that all good writing is rewriting: in other words, that editing is a critical part of turning out a polished, finished document. Of course, most...
November 5, 2014
The Mid-Semester Crunch
Almost everyone is prepared for a good semester at the beginning of the school year: new books, new teachers, and a new schedule always puts the student in an...
November 18, 2014
Surviving your Final Exams
No student likes finals: they always seem to come at an inconvenient time and the stress of having multiple tests, exams, and take-homes can be insurmountable if you don’t...
December 9, 2014