Dr. Alistair (Alix) Howard

| Writing suggestions                          

Writing

First, read. Go to the library and get a book. Or, if you're on the way home, buy a well-written magazine like The Economist or the New Yorker. Read it and pay attention to how the sentences and paragraphs are put together.

If you're writing a paper, you may want to look at my research tips and suggestions

You'll also want to browse Temple University Library Catalogue & Electronic Resources

Mechanics

Start a file on your computer in which you keep interesting, odd, or just plain difficult words and their definitions. This will help if, god forbid, you do the GRE. Expanding your vocabulary isn't a bad idea.

 

 

The flesh of animals who feed excursively is allowed to have a higher flavour than that of those who are cooped up.May there not be the same difference between men who read as their taste prompts,and men who are confined in cells and colleges to stated tasks?  

Boswell,  Life of Johnson