LibGuides: Writing Centre Online Resource Guide: Style

Writing About Numbers

Writing About Numbers
Learn about the conventions for incorporating numbers into your writing.

Transitions
The University of North Carolina has many useful handouts, including this one on using transitions to make your writing easier to read.

Using Transition Words
Transition words and phrases show the connection between two similar or different ideas and help to create flow. This guide from the Dalhousie Writing Centre discusses different kinds of transition phrase and the circumstances in which they are used.
Avoiding Awkward Phrasing
A handout describing how to deal with wordy, confusing, or convoluted phrases in your writing
Parentheticals
Parentheticals (also known as “interrupters”) are words or phrases that expand on something in a sentence or supply additional, non-essential information. This handout discusses how to use punctuation such as commas, parentheses and dashes to set off parenthetical material from the rest of a sentence.