Recent content by RobShein

I'm in the final year of my master's program, and I've hit a wall. My thesis is supposed to be the culmination of everything I've learned, but instead, it's become this overwhelming monster that's taking over my life. Between my part-time job, family responsibilities, and the sheer volume of...

I feel silly asking this, but I'm a freshman and I keep hearing about contractions in my English class. I know they're things like 'don't' and 'can't,' but I need a clearer definition of what are contractions in writing. My textbook says they're shortened forms of words, but that seems too...

I'm a freshman considering an English major, and I'm trying to understand some foundational concepts. In my intro to literary studies class, we keep talking about author's purpose, but I'm not clear on what two components shape an author's reason for writing. I've gathered from our readings that...

I'm working on my final paper for grad school and I'm completely stuck on how to cite a dissertation apa style. I've found a couple of really useful dissertations for my literature review, but they're from different sources—one from ProQuest, one from my university's institutional repository...

I'm left-handed and learning cursive writing in elementary school was genuinely traumatic. The desks were designed for righties, the teacher couldn't show me how to hold the pen without smudging everything, and my papers always ended up with that gray smear down the side. I remember being forced...