How to Write a Query Letter to an Editor or an Agent
Writing a query letter to an editor or an agent can open the doors to publishing your work or shut it down firmly. It’s a task that shouldn’t be taken lightly. GOLDEN RULE: make your research in advance and do NOT send an editor or an agent anything that he or she does NOT want. If…
Read MoreHow to Apply APA (American Psychological Association) Style Bibliography Citation
(Copyright-free photo by Unsplash dot com) Bibliography is an important part of every thesis, academic essay, article, or book that requires substantiation of the claims made in the work. Every student and researcher should know how to write a book bibliography. Why? Because a bibliography provides the reference against which the truth value of the…
Read MoreHow to Create and Use Autotext Building Blocks in a MS Word 2010 Document
There may be cases when you’d like to use the very same MS Word text snippet, or “boilerplate text”, repeatedly in different documents. Wouldn’t be nice just to insert the same frequently-used text automatically rather than copy-pasting, or worse, rewriting it? You can accomplish that easily with MS Word’s Autotext Building Block feature. What a…
Read MoreHow to Write a Perfect Resume
© Ugur Akinci To write a perfect resume, you need to remember one very important fact: you are not writing it to find a job. Let’s repeat: the main function of an excellent resume is NOT to get a job offer. It’s main function is to get you that JOB INTERVIEW. A resume that cannot…
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