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Our team of experts posts daily about spelling, grammar, punctuation, word choice, referencing, and more to help you better understand the English language and improve your writing skills.

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Word Choice: Program vs. Programme

The Atlantic Ocean is quite big. And with such a large amount of water between...

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Grammar Tips: Adjective Order

If you’ve grown up speaking English, you probably follow all kinds of grammar rules without...

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Percent or Per Cent? (Writing Percentages)

At Proofed, we always put 100% into our work. But wait, is that right? Not...

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Titles in Essays (Italics or Quote Marks?)

Formatting your own essay title is easy (just bung a Heading style on it). Unfortunately,...

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Word Choice: Causal vs. Casual

English is full of sneaky traps for writers. The words ‘causal’ and ‘casual’, for example,...

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Four Ways of Formatting for Emphasis

HELLO! Welcome to our blog. In this post, we’re looking at adding emphasis to writing...

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Citing More than One Source at Once (and Citation Order)

To support your arguments in an essay, you need to cite your sources. And if...

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Spelling Tips: Understanding Suffixes

In English, you can often build new words by attaching a suffix to the end...

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Word Choice: Refute, Rebut or Rebuke?

‘Refute’, ‘rebut’ and ‘rebuke’ all look similar. In addition, they’re all verbs that describe things...

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Repeat Citations in Chicago Referencing

If you’re writing an essay and you have a useful source, you may want to...

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Microsoft Word Tips: In Depth on Indentation

Many people use ‘Tab’ to indent something in Microsoft Word, but this can cause issues...

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3 Ways to Avoid Biased Language in Essays

There’s an old phrase that goes, ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words...

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