Rare vs Scarce - ‘Rare’ means unique. It indicates that the frequency of something happening or existing is less. Moreover, all scarce items are not rare! At times, non-rare or…
Most of us interchange the phrases in this paper and in this study quite liberally. Both phrases help the author to set the context and are usually used within the premises of…
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.…
Academic writing is full of specifications, conventions and rules. If you want your writing to be effective, you need to adhere to them. This three-part series (Part 1 and Part 2),…
In the first article of this three-part series, we shed light on how to use academic phrases in different scenarios. We also mentioned how authors benefit from using an AI-powered…
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…
The knowledge of the structure of language is essential if we want to create well-formed sentences that aptly deliver the intended idea. In this post, we look at a special…
The pseudo-generic pronoun “he,” that is, the usage of “man” to represent all humanity, supposes that the default and common human being is male. There are more critical issues in…
Research is hard enough without worrying about how to use microbial nomenclature or scientific names of bacteria correctly. Writing bacteria names in a research article can be a…
The format for writing scientific names of animals and plants is standardized and globally accepted. “Scientific nomenclature” refers to several names according to a particular…