by Danielle LaRocque What is a substantive editor? A substantive editor, in short, is someone who edits a piece of writing as a whole. In substantive…

by Jessica Messerer-Trosin One of the most important aspects of writing—some would argue the most important aspect—is revision. With revision comes the improvement of clarity,…

by Jessica Messerer-Trosin Here’s the situation: A professor or fellow student has recommended the Writing Centre, and after some deliberating, you’ve registered for an appointment.…

by Mackenzie Cassels One of the most frightening moments in a university student’s life is opening up a blank Microsoft Word document. It’s plain scary…

A running head, also called a page header, is a line at the top of each page of a document that gives the reader important…

Once you complete a first draft of your essay, it can be tempting to put it down, hand it in to your professor, and never…

by Gavin Hayes If you are writing an academic essay or other assignment, eventually you will face questions about formatting. Formatting is complicated by the fact…

Taking a writing-intensive course? Major final research essays due in November? Don’t pull a stressed-out all-nighter on your own the last week of classes. Join…

by Martin McFarlane When writing, it is important to keep in mind the people who will read your work. Depending on the situation, each reader…

Often, one of the hardest things about academic writing is deciding what to write about. Unless you are given a predetermined question by your instructor,…

by Jessica Messerer-Trosin Sentence Variety To keep your reader engaged and your writing interesting, it is important that you use a variety of sentence types. There…

by Martin McFarlane The rough draft is one of the most labour-intensive aspects of writing. It is also an opportunity to write down all of…

5 Stages of Error Correction in ESL Writing Find the error. Then circle or underline it. Identify the type of error, e.g., a verb tense…

For native English speakers the use of articles is second nature. Unfortunately, for those learning the language, it can be a difficult concept to grasp.…

Many writers get confused about where to put the punctuation at the end of a quote. Does the period/comma come before the closing quotation mark…

Culture affects us in many different ways, some more apparent than others, and none quite as complex as in our own academic writing. Universities establish…

Clichés are phrases that either have a general meaning or have been used so frequently for so long that they have lost their original meaning. …

Tempting as it may be to say “I don’t need to pay much attention to my writing because my career won’t require me to write…

Have you ever become so engrossed in a book or story that you can almost smell what the character is smelling or feel what they…

You have most likely been using Microsoft Word for several years now and even though you feel fairly confident with your computer skills, there are…