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This site is based on source data from the Princeton University WordNet database, the Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary, and suggestions from thousands of people on the internet just like you. Contains synonyms, antonyms, and rhymes (oh my!)
Also blog post ideas and story plot/logline resources for writers.

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“Students submit drafts to Turnitin, and the instructors see the flagged material and check if it is common knowledge or actual plagiarism. It gives the instructors and students more information on their work,” Grumbach said, describing the software’s “originality report.” She noted that the originality report is one of many tools professors must use to confirm plagiarism. Professors must take initiative to confirm that the flagged material was plagiarized, Grumbach said. Prof. Peter Katzenstein, government, has used Turnitin since 2008 on an experimental basis. He echoed Grumbach’s sentiments. “I don’t regard Turnitin as a tool for detecting or monitoring student plagiarism. It is, rather, a tool of great use to professors, graduate students and undergraduates for verifying authenticity and originality of scholarship,” he said. Katzenstein stressed that plagiarism is not a new problem. “Plagiarism was very widespread 30 to 40 years ago. When I joined the Cornell faculty, I was shocked to learn that fraternities had file cabinets filled with old term papers,” he said. “If professors did not watch out, they might read a paper from 5 years earlier without knowing.”

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Citation machine helps students and professional researchers to properly credit the information that they use. Its primary goal is to make it so easy for student researchers to cite their information sources.

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Citation Builder creates citations for you in APA or MLA format.

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Need help creating or updating your resume? It certainly can be complicated because your resume is going to be reviewed by software as well as by hiring managers. Review these top resume tips for choosing a resume format, selecting a resume font, customizing your resume, using resume keywords, explaining employment gaps, and more tips for writing interview winning resumes.

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For the past several years, I've taught a class at the University of Pennsylvania called "Uncreative Writing." In it, students are penalized for showing any shred of originality and creativity. Instead they are rewarded for plagiarism, identity theft, repurposing papers, patchwriting, sampling, plundering, and stealing. Not surprisingly, they thrive. Suddenly what they've surreptitiously become expert at is brought out into the open and explored in a safe environment, reframed in terms of responsibility instead of recklessness. We retype documents and transcribe audio clips. We make small changes to Wikipedia pages (changing an "a" to "an" or inserting an extra space between words). We hold classes in chat rooms, and entire semesters are spent exclusively in Second Life. Each semester, for their final paper, I have them purchase a term paper from an online paper mill and sign their name to it, surely the most forbidden action in all of academia. Students then must get up and present the paper to the class as if they wrote it themselves, defending it from attacks by the other students. What paper did they choose? Is it possible to defend something you didn't write? Something, perhaps, you don't agree with? Convince us.

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It may be inconceivable for you to misuse a word, but a quick look around online reveals plenty of people doing it. And it’s all too easy when we hear or see others use words incorrectly and parrot them without knowing it’s wrong.
We know by now that great copy and content often purposefully break the rules of grammar. It’s only when you break the rules by mistake that you look dumb.
So let’s take a look at 27 commonly misused words. Some are common mistakes that can cost you when trying to keep a reader’s attention. Others are more obscure and just interesting to know.

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"For almost two years now, we’ve posted a fresh Student Opinion question every weekday. Each question was originally inspired by something in that week’s New York Times, and all of them are still open to comment by anyone between the ages of 13 and 25. Teachers tell us they use them as “bell-ringers,” as inspiration for lessons, as jumping-off points for student research and journalism, or just to help students practice writing persuasively and responding to others around the world. (We don’t allow last names, and we read each and every comment ourselves before we make it public, so it’s a pretty civil, and safe, place to post.)"

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A list of recommendation letter resources, tips, and collections of useful phrases.

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As we begin the new school year we have an opportunity to start with a clean slate. Writing is a skill that many students struggle with, from grammar, idiom and spelling to punctuation and footnotes.

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"Of course, all you really need in order to write is a notebook and pen. But there are lots of software packages that can make life easier for writers. Whatever you want to be able to do, there’s almost certainly some software out there to help you. The list below includes the best packages to help you plan and structure a novel, share documents online with other people, format your screenplay or script correctly, minimize writing distractions, improve your English and more…"

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While WriteCheck has been around for two years, it has not garnered the same high user numbers as Turnitin. Some faculty members who work at institutions that use Turnitin said they had never heard of WriteCheck before. As a result, some recent blog posts by angry faculty members are the first time many are learning about the service. “It teaches you to obey the letter of the law, but not the spirit of the law,” Tabarrok said. “The only reason you would use this service is if you are skirting the spirit of the law by taking something from somewhere else and flipping things around a bit to pass the letter of the law.”

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“Turnitin helps instructors discover unoriginal work in student writing and engage students in a conversation about using and citing proper sources. It is intended to be a complement, not a substitute, to the teaching of proper writing and citation practices in the classroom. If used properly, Turnitin has been shown to reduce instances of plagiarism in student writing by 50 to 75 percent.”

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“If you think you’re going to be done with writing when you get out of college, you need to think again. It doesn’t matter what field you’re going into. The minute you get one step above fry cook, writing becomes part of your job. The higher up the ladder you climb, the more important writing becomes. And there’s an inverse relationship, too: The better you write, the higher you’re likely to rise.”

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"Welcome to the Graduate School of Management and Technology (GSMT) Assessment in Writing and English (AWE). This free tool is specifically designed to help graduate students evaluate their current skill in grammar, language conventions, written expression, and reading comprehension—competencies that are essential for success in graduate courses."

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Using Turnitin.com most effectively requires some preparation and planning. Turnitin is least successful when used covertly for monitoring students' work.

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Knowledge never sleeps, but it has been known to waste a lot of time on the Internet. The process of sharing knowledge via the written word ought to be easier than it is for the overeducated scientists, scholars, and practitioners who create psychology’s body of knowledge. But procrastination is deeply rooted in human nature—alongside the capacity for reflective thought, the ability to acquire language, and the love of deep-fried desserts—so it’s a vexing problem for academic writers.

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The APA Style Blog is the official companion to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition. It's run by a group of experts who work with APA Style every day. We publish weekly posts to talk about what we love—writing, publishing, and APA Style. We explore what APA Style is and how it works in a variety of areas, including reference citations of every sort, grammar and usage, the publication process, and social media. Occasionally we feature guest bloggers who write about more technical issues. The APA Style Blog has several features to help you navigate the site, whether you are just browsing or looking for an answer to a specific question. For example, you can search the blog, explore posts by category, and view the most recent posts and comments. You can also subscribe to our RSS feed and follow the APA Style Blog team on Twitter and Facebook. If you like a post (and we sincerely hope that you will), you can share it with your friends and colleagues using the "ShareThis" button at the end of each post. If by chance you don't see what you are looking for, please let us know how we can help by using the "Contact Us" link at the top of the page.

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