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Writing tip - Parallelism

6/2/2018

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A lack of parallelism is a problem I see in academic writing all the time. It often happens when authors try to combine two separate thoughts in one sentence. One solution is to create two short sentences, one for each thought. Another is to rework the sentence. In both the trouble for an editor is to pick the correct meaning, which because of the lack of parallelism can be tough.
Here is a brief article from the MLA style guide:
https://style.mla.org/parallelism/ 
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