You don’t cite because you want to spend hours running a citation marathon; you cite because you have a point to make, and you want your writing to reflect that point, not get bogged down with in-text citations. Most of us see in-text citations as a check-list: scatter ’em everywhere until the page is filled […]

Because it’s the last thing a reader will remember, a sentence near end of a work is weighted more heavily then the sentences that came before it. It floats above text as we turn page, scroll down screen. In fact, writers spends hours obsessing over their last line, yet few take pains to judge it […]

When the 5th anniversary rolls around and there is no place for it, what do you do? It will be February sometime, and then the leap year mess up your brain’s math. And there you are, staring at a blank page that simply does not exist because you already filled it up. Why? Because you […]

Why? Because you’re spacing it right. It is not because you don’t try. You cram all week, and by Tuesday morning you’ve forgotten it all. That’s not your effort’s fault; it’s the timing. Timing is key to spaced repetition. It hit your brain at the exact point when it begins to forget, strengthening those connections. […]