Spell check fail of the day
"Atrial." The right word was "arterial." This was for a paper on vascular effects on the heart, so "atrial" would work in the context because the heart has two atria.…
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March 25, 2013
A word about word variation
In creative writing, writers are encouraged to vary their word choice. Readers weary of a text where “he said” (for example) is in every line of dialog. However, in scientific…
March 11, 2013
The definite article (when to use “the”)
I have found that people for whom English is a second language have the biggest problems with when to use an article with an abstract noun--the name of a quality…
March 6, 2013
Affect vs. Effect
In general, affect is a verb and effect is a noun. I use a mnemonic device: a comes before e in the alphabet, and you can "affect an effect." In…
February 18, 2013