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• Using acronyms in your academic writing
Where to introduce an acronym Standard rule for introduction of an acronym The standard rule given by many journals, style guides, and editors for when to introduce an acronym or initialism is to introduce it at the first use of the full term. Thereafter, the acronym or initialism, without the full term, should be used instead. An acronym or initialism should not be used alone (without the full term) if it has not been explained to the reader in earlier text. This is the most efficient and straightforward approach. You’re probably quite familiar wit...
• What’s wrong with “the present study”?
Difficulty: Intermediate Uni-edit English Editors are accustomed to seeing the self-referential phrase “the present study”, which an author uses in a paper to refer to itself or accompanying research. It’s not a particularly technical term, nor is it subject-specific: it appears in the natural sciences and social sciences with equal frequency. Most Asian languages have a word with exactly this meaning: for example, 本研究 in both Chinese (běn yánjiū) and Japanese (hon-kenkyuu), so it’s easy for non-native speakers of English to translate directly from...