Prevention over Correction in 100 Tips to Avoid Mistakes in Academic Writing

Most writing advice arrives after the error, in red ink, too late to help the grade. 100 Tips to Avoid Mistakes in Academic Writing moves the advice before the writing, where it can actually change outcomes.

The Mistakes Everyone Makes

Agreement errors, article misuse, run-on sentences, informal intrusions, citation chaos — the tips begin where markers’ patience ends. 100 Tips to Avoid Mistakes in Academic Writing reads like a marker’s confession of everything that costs students marks.

Tips that Become Habits

Each tip is small enough to adopt in one essay, and adopted tips compound: by the tenth assignment a student’s default writing is visibly cleaner. Lecturers notice the difference without knowing its source, which is exactly the book’s ambition.