effective writing Archives - Words by a Pro https://old.wordsbyapro.com/tag/effective-writing/ Tue, 20 Oct 2015 22:14:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-WBP-FAVICON_7-32x32.jpg effective writing Archives - Words by a Pro https://old.wordsbyapro.com/tag/effective-writing/ 32 32 Don’t Be a Freakin’ Idiom https://old.wordsbyapro.com/dont-be-a-freakin-idiom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dont-be-a-freakin-idiom https://old.wordsbyapro.com/dont-be-a-freakin-idiom/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2015 22:08:21 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=1425 Upon receiving my edits on an academic paper recently, the author—a non-native English speaker—questioned why I had changed “for reason of” to “for reasons of,” when there was only one reason cited in that sentence. It was a reasonable question for which I didn’t have a good answer, except that “for reasons of” is much […]

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