Ever wondered how to improve your word choice? Why citations matter? What in the heck a semicolon is really used for? Well, if you have questions like these, you’ve come to the write spot!

Professor Labs’ Writing Spot is an all-in-one resource for anyone and everyone looking to advance their writing and communication skills. Start by searching for whatever writing topic you want to learn more about in the search bar on the right, or click here to view our full list of writing topics.

Some common areas of focus:

• Artificial Intelligence
  • Why Not Just Let AI Write Everything?
  • Why AI Isn’t a Good Thesaurus
• Citation
  • Citation Basics
  • Paraphrasing vs. Quotes
  • Which Citation Style
• Concepts
  • How to Avoid “Strawman” Fallacies
  • How to Incorporate Counterarguments
  • Rhetorical Appeals: Ethos, Logos, Pathos
  • What Makes a “Good” Title
• Formatting
  • How to Integrate Quotes
  • Titles of Other Works
• Grammar and Punctuation
  • Advanced Punctuation
  • Colons
  • Contractions
  • Difference Between Hyphen (-), En Dash (–), and Em Dash (—)
  • Ellipses
  • Em Dashes
  • Italics
  • Punctuating Quotations
  • Quoting Keywords
  • Semicolons
• Phrasing
  • Clarifying Vague Words
  • Reducing Wordiness
• Research
  • Assessing Source Validity
  • How Old is Too Old for Research Sources?
  • How to Use “Relevant” Research
• Structure
  • Concluding Sentences
  • How to Make a Paragraph
  • Topic Sentence Transitions

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