Free Style Guide Quizzes

Writing with authority means using the specific writing style and conventions expected of authors in your field. This helps your work look credible to other specialists.

Writing with authority extends beyond understanding and using grammar and set phrases well; it also covers, for example, knowing the latest accepted terminology and citation styles to use, following general formatting conventions, and properly writing about ethical considerations in your work.

There are a number of style guides used in academic and scientific writing. Choosing the right style guide to follow depends on the field you want to publish in. For example, authors who are publishing in medicine and healthcare may follow the style guides published by the American Medical Association (AMA) or the American Psychological Association (APA), while authors working in the humanities and education often follow the style laid out by the Modern Language Association (MLA). Although the principles and requirements of academic writing are broadly similar across disciplines, writing style differs in many more subtle aspects too, such as how to express numbers clearly, cite your sources, and appropriately use accepted terminology.

Free quizzes on style guides

Choose a style guide that best covers your specialist field and see how many stylistic conventions you don’t already know, so you can start incorporating them into your writing!