Use via only to refer to journeys or shipments

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It is unlikely that you will need to use the word via while writing a research paper because the word is typically used to mention a place between the starting point of a journey and its destination, as in "He

travelled from Tokyo to New York via San Francisco" or "You can reach USA from India either via Europe or via the Middle East."

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Do not use via to convey the technique or the apparatus you used to arrive at a particular result. It is not considered good English to write

"We separated the components of the mixture via thin-layer chromatography" or "Toxicity was established via experiments on

laboratory rats."

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Via is sometimes used to indicate the means of transport or shipment, as in "The book was dispatched via a courier" or to mean "through the

agency of," as in "The news reached him via a radio broadcast," although the New Fowler's Modern English Usage labels this usage "less

comfortable" [1].

[1] Burchfield R W (ed.). 1996. The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, 3rd edn, p. 824. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 864 pp.

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