Guide to Writing Student Papers (Part D)

Masterpen in its effort to enhance students' knowledge and skills in academic writing has created a complete guide to writing student papers which includes all the rules that need to be followed for the successful completion of papers of all academic levels. Whether you are writing a term paper or a degree or one thesis or even a PhD thesis, this guide will provide you with all the required guidance in order to have a successful and at the same time scientific result.

Grammar rules when writing Student Papers

Pay attention to grammatical tenses

In literature review type tasks, the indefinite tense is used in most cases because you are referring to something that happened in the past. However, you must alternate the times at work according to the time they occurred. But when you refer to situations that are happening in the present, the present tense will be used. When formulating research hypotheses you will always use the future tense. Also, for references to the future or predictions, use the future tense.

EXAMPLE: Incorrect Tense: In Chapter 3 it will be described.

Correct Time: Chapter 3 describes.

USE OF VERBS

Avoid the use of the first person singular when writing papers (in this study I will present...", "I found during the study that...", "I found that..."). It is preferable to use the third person singular ("the researcher states...") or another impersonal reference such as changing the subject ("This paper presents/examines...", "the text/research states...", " The purpose of this study is to check…”). However, it is more correct to use extended passive voice ("this paper/study deals with..", "in this study it is presented/examined/developed/proposed/described...", "In this study it was attempted").

REMEMBER: Subject change and the passive voice are used extensively in literature review-type tasks.

In research works, the same applies as in bibliographic works, with the exception of the cases where you are invited to comment on the results: When commenting on the results, never use first-person plural expressions ("we discovered that...", "we found that...") because you are addressing the readers and if you use such expressions you give the impression that you together with the reader you conducted the research and then extracted the results together.

ATTENTION: You can write: "we can see that ..." in the cases where you were going to refer to some information or evidence below. This wording is correct in this case, as it means that the author (you) and the reader can see together what is listed next.

But when you want to describe the results of the research, use the third person singular and the indefinite tense. For example: "The researcher/author found during the study that..." or use passive voice as follows: "It was found during the study that...".

To comment on the results in research papers, use the first person singular only when it is necessary to present your personal opinion. In these cases, use phrases such as: "I think that...", "I think that..." etc.

ACCENT RULES

Beware of the monotonic system: Monosyllabic words are not stressed. For example: ''to'', ''who'', ''to'', ''and'', ''what'', ''the'', ''for'' etc. Exceptions are interrogatives ''where'' and ''how'', to separate them from the pronouns which and how, and the conjunction ''or'', which is always stressed to separate it from the feminine article. However, the question mark ''What'' is not emphasized When since there is no question of separating it with a similar type. You never emphasize words that consist only of capitals: e.g. HOSTAGE. But when referring to a word where the first letter is capitalized (and the rest are lowercase) then mark the accent on the capital letter if necessary. Example: Homer. When a word includes the two-digit vowel ''au'' and although the stress is pronounced on the first vowel, in the written language the stress is placed on the second vowel: e.g. sailor

PUNCTUATION POINTS

The solvents: are placed above the vowels "i" and "y". ATTENTION: We write "donkey" but also "donkey". In the first case, the accent is placed before the "i", so the solvents are not needed. However, when the accent is placed after the ``i'' we must mark the disjunctive over the ``i''.
The full stop it is marked, beyond the end of a sentence, and in the abbreviations: m. (meter), sq.m. (square meter), km. (kilometer), etc. (and so on), etc. (and others), etc. (and others), etc. (for example), AD (after Christ), a.m. (before noon), e.g. (for example), BC (B.C).
The comma ( , ) : is placed on the relative ``what'' (what I do = anything I do) to separate it from the special conjunction ``that'' (he told me that..). Also, we place a comma between unrelated words (e.g. typical metals are iron, copper, aluminum, magnesium...), after the vocative (e.g. Mr. President, let's begin...), to separate the main clauses from subordinate clauses (e.g. They didn't assign us the work, because the right partner was not found), in parenthetical phrases when they have an explanatory position (e.g. The Minister of Education, Kostas Gavroglou, was elected Member of Parliament in 2015) .

THE FINAL -N

In some words the final -n is sometimes retained and sometimes lost. These words are: the definite feminine article (the the feminine personal pronouns of the third person (her and the molecule "don't". More specifically, -n is preserved when the next letter begins with a vowel or one of the instant and double consonants κ, π, τ, ξ, ψ, б, н, г, ч, ц.

However, the final -n is always retained in masculine definite and indefinite articles (on, on, one) and in masculine third person personal pronouns (him, him, someone) as also in the modal adverb ''like'' and in the molecule ''no'' (Babiniotis).

THE PASSIONS OF THE SPEAKER

Avoid vowel sounds when writing scientific texts. For example: Elision: Write "The result" and not "the result". Removal: Write ''Will be'' and not ''Will be''. Cutoff: Write "In the table" and not "In the table".

WHEN IS THE FIRST LETTER OF A WORD CAPITAL?

Names of persons or places (Papadopoulos Konstantinos, Thessaloniki, Cyprus, Lower Saxony, Black Sea but Aegean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Nile River, etc.), the federations of states (the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Republic, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), titles of honor and office (Prime Minister, Archbishop, Speaker of the Parliament) , Officer, Baron, King, etc.), the names of state institutional bodies of governmental and legislative authority as well as international organizations (Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs, Areios Pagos, Parliament, Congress, Senate, Areios Pagos, Council of State, European Union , Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European Parliament, European Economic and Social Committee, European Committee of the Regions, etc.), names of institutions, university schools, companies, associations (Aniaton Foundation, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, National Technical University of Athens, Alpha Exchange, etc.) .), the names of months, days of the week, holidays, historical events (June, Tuesday, World War II, Easter, Christmas, Ramadan, Greek Revolution).

We write: Greek (but Greek politician, Greek poetry, Greek, Greek), East (but Eastern), English (but English engineer, English, English language, English), Christ (but Christian, Christianity), Christmas (but Christmas), God (but divine), Sunday (but Sunday morning), Easter (but Easter egg), Russia (but Russian marble, Russian language).

ATTENTION: When referring to a specific geographical area (or educational institution, or government/legal entity, or rule/regulation, or title/office, etc.) then we capitalize the first letter of all words. Conversely, when we do not specify the geographic area (or the educational institution, or the governmental/legal entity, or the rule/regulation, or the title/office) and our reference is general or vague then we lowercase the entire word .

Examples: the university (but Aristotle University), the president (but the Speaker of Parliament), the sun (the Sun of our solar system), earth (but planet Earth), the museum (but the British Museum), Roman (but Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation), Byzantine (but Byzantine Empire), the treaty (but the Treaty of Lausanne), the budget committee (but the Commission of the European Communities), the council (but the Council of the European Union), catholic (but the Roman Catholic Church), treaty (but the Treaty of Lausanne), the budget committee (but the Commission of the European Communities), the council (but the Council of the European Union), northern Greece (when we do not specify a geographical area) but Northern Greece (when we refer to the whole of the parts of northern Greece that are Macedonia and Thrace), the press (when we specifically refer to the media) but we write the mathematical formula (since we do not make a specific reference).

But when only one word is part of the name we are referring to, then we capitalize only the first letter of the main name. However, when all the words are part of the name we are referring to, then we capitalize the first letter of all the words

Examples: Lower Saxony, but Aegean Sea, Nile River, Mediterranean Sea but Black Sea (since the words "Black Sea" are the main name), etc.

Liability Disclaimer: The research and custom writing services provided by MasterPen are 100% legal and have limited use as stated in the Website Terms of Use.

All projects and/or any other written materials delivered to our clients are for research and/or reference purposes only. We do not encourage or knowingly engage in plagiarism or other acts of academic fraud or dishonesty.

Any action taken by the customer that is not in accordance with copyright law is done without the knowledge of MasterPen and is his responsibility if it violates the Terms and Conditions of the business.

Guide to Writing Student Papers (Part D)

Grammar rules when writing Student Papers

Pay attention to grammatical tenses

USE OF VERBS

ACCENT RULES

PUNCTUATION POINTS

THE FINAL -N

THE PASSIONS OF THE SPEAKER

WHEN IS THE FIRST LETTER OF A WORD CAPITAL?

SERVICES

ABOUT US

INFORMATION

CONTACT

Guide to Writing Student Papers (Part D)

Grammar rules when writing Student Papers

Pay attention to grammatical tenses

USE OF VERBS

ACCENT RULES

PUNCTUATION POINTS

THE FINAL -N

THE PASSIONS OF THE SPEAKER

WHEN IS THE FIRST LETTER OF A WORD CAPITAL?

Share this entry

SERVICES

ABOUT US

INFORMATION

CONTACT