APA Citation
This is the correct in-text citation for an article written by John Smith in 2008.
What is (Smith, 2008)?
This is the register you'd write in if you were publishing in Smithsonian magazine or Scientific American.
What is the popular register?
The voice of this sentence: Bob hit John.
What is active voice?
"Observation", "assumption", and "development" are examples of this type of noun.
What is an abstract noun?
This is what the "S" stands for in the "SAR" strategy for writing an annotated bibliography.
What is "summary"?
This is the correct in-text citation for an article written by John Smith and William Jones in 2008 when the citation is part of the sentence itself.
What is "Smith and Jones (2008)"?
This is the type of register that most scientific articles are written in, even though it's often confusing and hard to understand.
What is the abstract register?
This is the active version of the following sentence: "It was found that cells divide (Smith & Jones, 2008)."
What is "Smith and Jones (2008) found that cells divide."?
To write clearly and well, you should make your subjects these and their actions verbs.
What is "characters"?
This is what the "A" stands for in the "SAR" strategy for writing an annotated bibliography.
What is "analysis"?
This is the correct in-text citation for an article written by John Smith, William Jones, and Abigail Adams in 2008, if it's the first time you're citing that article at the end of a sentence.
What is (Smith, Jones, & Adams, 2008)?
This is the type of register that well-written, formal scientific articles are written in.
What is the conventional register?
This is a simpler, preferred version of the verb "to terminate".
What is "to end"?
These are the two main weak verbs you should avoid.
What are "to be" and "to have"?
This is what the "R" stands for in the "SAR" strategy for writing an annotated bibliography.
What is "relevance"?
This is the register that you might write in if you wanted to sound conversational and emotional.
What is the informal register?
This is a revision to the following sentence, which has many noun strings: Developing regular exercise programs and diet regimes contributes to disease risk prevention and optimal health promotion.
What is "Regular exercise and attention to diet help prevent disease and promote health."?
The meaning of "conservation" and "management" could be better expressed by turning them into these strong verbs.
What are "conserve" and "manage"?
This is what you should organize your literature review paragraphs by.
What is "topic"?
In a full reference citation, this title (article or journal?) goes in italics.
What is the journal title?
This is what you call the writer's attitude toward herself, her audience, or her subject.
What is tone?
This much shorter phrase can be used to simplify and reduce the long phrase: an example of this is the fact that
What is "for example"?
This is the main issue with this sentence: Part of our evidence establishing that the p65 product was derived from uncleaved FAT1 and not from the futher proteolytic processing of the cleaved FAT1 herterodimer was obtained by the use of the furin-defective LoVo cells.
What is the verb is too far away from the subject?
This is the point-of-view it's appropriate to use when writing a literature review. (1st, 2nd, or 3rd person)
What is 3rd person?