You graded a student’s paper and found the running use of contractions. provide a brief explanation that argues against the use of contractions in academic and scholarly papers.

Explanation:

Contractions are not allowed, or should not be allowed in academic paper because it confuse. Also, academic papers need to have a technical and objective, precise writing, and those characteristics are not achieved with contraction.

So, at the end, contractions are informal, which is not the case of an academic paper.

true. the definition explains it: a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. this is a dictionary definition that i have looked up in a dictionary.

a.) literature that explores grotesque characters and eerie, violent occurrences in a dreary setting.