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APA Style & Citations For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Life requires regular adjustments to new environments — college is one of the most demanding. Maybe you’re an undergraduate and want help deciphering the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition. In order to write A-worthy papers, you need to be able to understand and implement the APA style. This handy Cheat Sheet offers advice for using the APA style and adjusting to col...

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Grammar

Past and Past Participles of Common Irregular English Verbs

Dozens and dozens of English verbs have irregular past tense forms, as well as irregular past pa...

Grammar

How to Use Commas in Addresses and Dates

Learning how to write an address on an envelope is a good skill to master. However, often times, people incorrectly...

Grammar

How to Punctuate Quotations with Question Marks

English grammarians have devised a special set of rules for punctuating quotations that are questions. Pop q...

Poetry

How to Write a Sonnet

Learn how to write a sonnet in iambic pentameter, just like Shakespeare di...

Grammar

What is a complete sentence?

Learning to write in complete sentences is a necessary skill. In order to fully understand the construction of a complete sente...

Poetry

Understanding the Tone of a Poem

The tone of a poem is the attitude you feel in it — the writer’s attitude toward the subject or audience. The t...

Language Arts

Writing Children’s Books For Dummies Cheat Sheet

As you explore writing children’s books, you enter a different world, one filled with book form...

Creative Writing

Exploring the Different Types of Fiction

Fiction is a general term used to describe an imaginative work of prose, either a novel, short story, or novella. R...

Grammar

When to Put Titles in Quotation Marks

In your writing, sometimes you may need to include the title of a magazine, the headline of a newspaper article, the t...

Grammar

English Grammar For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Whether you’re engaging in everyday speech or writing the perfect paper, you need to be familiar with the various...

Grammar

Using Apostrophes to Show Possession

Apostrophes are those little curved marks you see hanging from certain letters. They look harmless enough, so why do ev...

Speed Reading

How to Skim Text

Skimming — getting the essence from reading material without reading all the words — boils down to knowing what parts to read a...

Creative Writing

Playwriting For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Playwriting is an exciting and accessible performing arts scriptwriting discipline. Anyone can write a play, round up so...

Getting Published

How to Format Your Children’s Book Manuscript

If you don’t make a good first impress...

Grammar

When to Use Capital Letters

In English grammar, you need to know when to capitalise words. Sometimes the capital letter signifies the part of a sentence or...

Grammar

To “Who” or To “Whom”? That Is the Question

Lately, some grammarians have given up on whom. In their view, few people use whom and even fewer use it...

Grammar

How to Form Present and Past Participles of Regular English Verbs

When you are doing your English grammar homework, your struggles with participles may give...

Grammar

How to Punctuate Quotations in Statements

To write proper English, you need to follow all the punctuation rules, even the illogical ones. Punctuation with q...

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