Making academic writing mistakes and having your paper marked down for it, doesn’t exactly fill your tutors and teachers with confidence, and leaves you with precious little to feel proud of. While such mistakes certainly aren’t uncommon, as a student, you’ll want to avoid making them if you can.

Below are 5 of the most common academic writing mistakes, and ones that you’ll definitely want to avoid…

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Often required as part of an academic dissertation, a research proposal is immensely important, and should accurately and concisely outline the process from start to finish. However, while there are professional writing services who will help you write an excellent, top-grade achieving research proposal, writing one unaided can be a daunting prospect. Fortunately, there are a number of steps to follow that will help guide you through the research proposal process, and make writing it, more of a… Continue

Whatever type of writer you are, be it a blogger or a journalist to a non-fiction author, and whatever the subject matter, creativity is a must for any successful writer. Fortunately, there are plenty of tips for being more creative in your writing:

Imitation is not the sincerest form of flattery

While a writer may find it flattering that you’ve copied their work verbatim, they’ll doubtless truly appreciate the sentiment, since their hard work and efforts has simply been…

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Essays are typically referred to as generic when they copy the style, tone and diction of other essays, and could have been written by anyone with or without a sound understanding of the subject matter. Typically, a generic essay doesn’t talk about the specific elements of a subject in any great detail, and gives the reader no insight into who has written the essay, and why the topic is important to them.

A generic admission essay is never going to score you top marks at college…

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