Avoiding misplaced and dangling modifiers in academic writing

The workshop addresses a common difficulty that appears within academic texts. A writer creates, what it seems to them, a consistent and clear piece of text, whereas the reader sometimes struggles to understand what was originally meant. The confusion may appear when the reader cannot tell which word a modifier is attached to. Thus, we get misplaced, dangling, and squinting modifiers, which modify a word ambiguously or illogically just because of their placement in a sentence. We will learn to first notice such modifiers and then practice correcting the ambiguity to get across a clear and straightforward message to the reader. Speaker: Ekaterina Redkina ABOUT THE HSE AWC The HSE Academic Writing Center (AWC) is a collaborative space where university faculty and researchers can get language support at any time. JOIN US AWC website: