Writing Guides

Guides to Common APA Errors

The guides below provide tips on how to avoid common APA errors.

APA Errors: Citations and Punctuation

APA Errors: Formatting Titles

Writing Guides

Each of the guides below provides a brief, highly readable explanation of how to avoid common errors that can impact on the quality and effectiveness of your writing.

• Avoiding Awkward Shifts in Verb Tense
• Clauses
• Coherence and Parallelism
• Coherence and Transitions
• Colons
• Commas
• Faulty Predication
• Misplaced Modifiers
• Parallelism
• Participles
• Prepositions
• Relative Clauses
• Sentence Fragments
• Sentence Fragments
• Subject Verb Agreement
• That or Who or Which
• The Comma Splice
• Typos
• Using the Apostrophe
• Using the Semicolon
• Using “You” in Academic Writing
• What Are Active and Passive Voice?
• When to Use a Semicolon
• When to Use Then and Than
• When to Use Who and When to Use That
• When to Use Who and When to Use Whom