by Tweed Editing | Sep 3, 2010 | documentation
Endnotes and footnotes can include far more than just bare-bones citations. To point to extra sources, scholars use signal phrases and abbreviations, but they are not all interchangeable. These quick guidelines will help you mean what you say and say what you mean....
by Tweed Editing | Jul 29, 2010 | documentation
You already know how important documentation is for academic writing. You want to give credit where credit is due, leave breadcrumbs for readers interested in following up on sources you used, and simply produce professional-looking writing. All of these aims are...
by Tweed Editing | Jun 17, 2010 | documentation, writing tools
Good news! You can now set up automatic email alerts to keep up with new scholarship on whatever research topic you choose. You are probably already familiar with Google Scholar, the search engine that allows you to search academic journals, books, abstracts, and...
by Tweed Editing | May 6, 2010 | Ask TWEED, documentation
Dear TWEED Editing: I have a question for you, Mistress Tweed. My students informed me recently that MLA requires that bibliographic citations obtained through a database require that the database be included in the citation. So their citations end up looking like...
by Tweed Editing | Apr 20, 2010 | Ask TWEED, documentation
Dear TWEED Editing: My roommate is doing a paper on a film and wants to quote the director from the director’s commentary. Do you have a website recommendation that would explain how one could properly format that in their ‘Works Cited’ section?...
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