Look anywhere online and you can find articles bemoaning the difficulties COVID-19 has wrought on people’s ability to maintain a social life. Despite the constraints that social…
Category: Writing about Writing
Lessons, tips, and reflections on being writers; especially discussing the process of composing words, different genres and their related techniques, and meaningful glimpses into their growth as authors, tutors, and readers.
I recently had an Online Realtime appointment with a writer who was looking to add sources to her research paper on creating a diverse workplace. We scoured…
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Choosing a Citation Style
Picture this: you receive the assignment guidelines and rubric for an upcoming written assignment. Your professor requires in-text citations and a Works Cited or References page at…
During quarantine, a lot of people have gotten back into reading for fun, and I’m definitely one of them. I hadn’t read a book that wasn’t for…
Verb tenses are one of those grammar concepts that tend to be difficult for native speakers to identify and speak on in a metalinguistic way. As a…
As a tutor, my self-perceptions on my grammatical strengths have been pretty confident from the start—I’ve been able to explain surface-level concepts regarding sentence structure, parts of…
What is a comma? When should it be used? A comma (,) is a punctuation mark used to indicate separation within a sentence. They help to group…
A noun is usually described as a person, place, or thing, which seems simple enough until you really unpack all the different types of nouns: concrete and…
The Basics Expletive constructions are phrases like “there is”, “here are”, and “it seems” that typically serve to introduce the content of a sentence. Just because a…
Whether we recognize it or not, most art involves writing in some way, be it scribbles on a paper napkin about an idea for a new painting,…