Some Writing Tips

1. Should you refer to the Democracy in America guy as Tocqueville, deTocqueville or De Tocqueville? The BBC provides an answer that applies to French names in general:

The rule is this -- a "de" attached to a single-syllable name stays no matter what. Anything longer, and removal of the honorific means removal of the "de." So you read de Gaulle's books, but you peruse Tocqueville's works -- and Villepin's, as the minister is also an author. And "de,"by the way, is NEVER capitalized. [Editorial note: I have used American spelling and punctuation.]

2. What do you do when your endnotes cite a work more than once? Here is the answer:

In your essay’s footnotes or endnotes you will only need to use the full citation form once for a specific source. All subsequent citations of that same source will use either the Latin abbreviation “Ibid.” or a shortened citation. [More detail here.]

3. Superscripts follow punctuation marks (except a dash) in text and appear outside a closing parenthesis.

4. Do not dangle your modifiers.