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Creative Writers Use 8 Editing Steps to Perfection

Creative writers – don’t wait to edit your work until you know every word by heart – learn to edit the easy way. Do you know what to look for in editing? Have you wondered what should stay and what should go? By the time you read this article, you will know the answers to [...]

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APA Formatting : How to Create a Reference List in APA Style

In your APA Style thesis or dissertation, the reference list provides an alphabetical listing of all the sources you used to create your paper. When creating an APA Style reference list, which some people call a bibliography, you have to follow specific APA formatting rules, depending on the type of source involved.

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APA Citations : How to Cite Sources Inside APA Style Text

When writing an APA Style paper, it’s required that you properly cite any sources you’ve used. Citing sources is important for a few reasons. First, it allows instructors to check the accuracy of your research. Second, it gives your readers the opportunity to find additional related information. Most importantly, citing sources gives credit for the [...]

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How to Improve Your Article Proofreading Skills in 3 Simple Steps

You’ve worked your way through an article, an essay, a book… with the written word, but what comes next is perhaps even more hard work in terms of making your piece more readable. To achieve this, you’ll want to ensure that it flows well, and that it is grammatically correct and free of typographical errors; [...]

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Creative Writers - At What Point Do You Call Yourself a Writer?

According to the dictionary, a writer is one who writes. Yet most writers don’t consider themselves “real” writers unless they have been published. Is it because the literary world is responsible for dubbing a person a “writer”? Or is it because writers lay that definition on themselves? I think it is the latter.

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Creative Writers, Beware of Selling Your Rights

Most new writers are so eager to sell their work that they don’t stop to consider what rights they are selling. “Rights” refers to how a publisher can use your work. “Rights” has nothing whatever to do with what you are paid or the copyright of your work.

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Creative Writers Do the Twist

Wikipedia defines a twisted ending as an unexpected conclusion or climax to a work of fiction, which may contain a surprising irony, or cause the audience to review the story from a different perspective by revealing new information about the characters or plot. A twist ending is the conclusive form of plot twists. This literary [...]

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Six Effective Writing Tips for the Internet

Any one that is running an online business that needs good website content such as articles for e-books, e-zines, article directories, etc. will find themselves doing quite a bit of writing. This is true if they are writing from scratch or even if they are just rewriting someone else’s written work and calling it their [...]

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