To quote a textbook, put the borrowed words in quotation marks and follow them with an in-text citation that points to the author and the exact page. In MLA that looks like (Myers and DeWall 214); in APA it looks like (Myers & DeWall, 2021, p. 214). A textbook is cited like any other book,…
To quote a definition in an essay, put the defined wording in quotation marks, name the source in a signal phrase, and cite the dictionary or reference work you took it from. Cite the specific entry, not just “the dictionary” — the word you looked up is the title of the entry. In MLA the…
Somewhere in almost every article about owning less, there’s a number. Minimalists save two thousand a year, the posts say, or five thousand, depending on which one you land on. It’s a satisfying figure, and for a lot of people it’s the reason they give the whole thing a try. So I went looking for…
You know the moment: the conversation is clearly over, and neither of you can work out how to leave. So you reach for the polite exit — an excuse, a glance at your phone, a vague “we should do this again.” And that, it turns out, is the part that makes it awkward. The moves…
Final consonant deletion minimal pairs are word pairs that are identical except that one ends in a consonant and the other does not, like bee and beet, or bow and boat. They are the core tool for treating final consonant deletion, a phonological process where a child drops the last consonant of a word, so…
You shake someone’s hand, they tell you their name, and about four seconds later it’s completely gone. It’s one of the most common small panics in any conversation. And it usually has nothing to do with rudeness or a poor memory. In the moment you’re introduced, most of your attention goes to the handshake, the…
Caption writing is the craft of writing the short text that sits under or beside a photo, post, or figure. A good caption does one job clearly: it either explains what the reader is looking at, adds context the image cannot show, or gives the image a voice for social media. The rules differ by…
SH and CH minimal pairs are word pairs that differ by only one sound: the “sh” /ʃ/ in one word and the “ch” /tʃ/ in the other, with everything else the same. “Ship” and “chip,” “share” and “chair,” “watch” and “wash” are minimal pairs. They are used in speech therapy and phonics to train the…
S and z minimal pairs are word pairs that differ by only one sound: the /s/ in one word and the /z/ in the other, with everything else the same. “Sip” and “zip,” “bus” and “buzz,” “price” and “prize” are minimal pairs. They are used in speech therapy and phonics to train the ear and…
To quote a textbook in APA 7, put the quoted words in quotation marks and add an in-text citation with the author’s last name, the year, and the page number: (Rokach, 2005, p. 477). A textbook is cited exactly like any other book in APA, the fact that it is a textbook does not change…