Imagine being in a literature class. The professor says, “The book screamed at me…every time I misinterpreted a character’s intentions.” You might be puzzled. This situation brings up the idea of objects or books acting like people. We call this anthropomorphism. In creative writing, it can be fun. But, in scientific work, it can cause misunderstandings. Quick Tips – Avoiding Anthropomorphism in Scientific Writing Anthropomorphism…
Common grammatical errors in scientific writing
At a coffee break, one student shared, “I’m lost with subject-verb rules. Using the wrong verb with the right subject is like trying to solve a maze!” Another said, “My advisor caught my run-on sentence mistake. I packed a year’s data into a single, endless sentence.” Then, a funny error was mentioned: “I once wrote a fossil was overcooked instead of millions of years old!”…