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Have you found yourself reading something and then retracing a sentence? Sensing that you missed something? On re-reading, you find that you were right! The sentence is incomplete. You’ve just come across a sentence fragment. …

In the final installment of our three-part series (Part 1 and Part 2), we will deal with phrases used to compare outcomes and those used to cite work by other authors. Comparison to Previous Outcomes One of the aims of the …

Continuing from the first article in this three-part series, here are a few more pointers for using academic phrases effectively. Phrases to Show Emphasis Certain phrases are used to draw the readers’ attention to what the writer…

In academic documents, authors need to explain or report a wide range of research activities. For instance, they need to describe the purpose of their research, refer to other research papers, specify the procedures used, and compare the…

As an academic researcher, a part of the writing process that frequently causes confusion and leads to common mistakes is word choice. While writing in English, maintaining the correct word choice is fairly difficult for both ESL…

At Trinka AI, we are working night and day to bring you the latest and most requested features, right inside your writing environment. While Trinka’s robust AI covers a multitude of smart checks and suggestions to make your writing…

Each time you are asked to give the characteristics of something, it’s likely that you use an adjective (i.e., a word describing a noun). In English, traditional phrase structure rules place no limit on the number of adjectives in a…

In William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, Juliet asserts, “that which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” She means that as their families are rivals, if either of them –she or Romeo– altered their names, they…

A synonym is a word that means the same or is similar to the referenced word. It comes from the Greek “syn” (together) and “onym” (name). While writing or speaking, one of the best ways to enhance your vocabulary and refrain from using the…

There is a famous saying among writers: “all writing is re-writing.” This means that writing the first draft is only the beginning; to improve your work, you should re-write and edit as much as necessary. This is just as true for research…