Confusable words
Affect or effect? Farther or further? When writing, it is sometimes difficult to remember the...

Good grammar
For most people, learning grammar is the first step in learning to write. The idea is that rules of grammar are the foundation for...

Parallel structure
Parallelism is a similarity of grammatical form for similar elements of meaning within a sentence or among sentences. If two or more ideas are parallel, they should be expressed in...

Subject-verb agreement
When writing a paper, it is helpful to keep in mind that verbs must always agree with the subject in both...

Tense shifting
Many students believe that tense changes should always be avoided. However, sometimes a shift in tense is necessary to...

Using accents and other symbols
Writing sometimes calls for the use of some non-traditional marks. For example, when writing in...