When combining two complete sentences with a conjunction ("and," "but," "or," "for," or "yet"), precede the conjunction with a comma. Example: Still, the sun is slowly getting brighter and hotter, and ...

Numbers one through nine are written out; 10 and up are digits. This can be confusing because you can switch between writing out numbers and digits in the same sentence. EXAMPLE: There are eight ...

the period should go after the citation because the citation belongs to that sentence. Example: In “Synthetic Biology–Putting Engineering into Biology,” Heinemann and Panke theorize about the future ...

Some professors require you to create a sentence outline for your paper in advance of writing the final draft. They ask you to do this to ensure that you are progressing with the assigned paper, to ...

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