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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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Grammatical Differences: Australian vs. American English

Previously, we’ve looked at some common spelling differences between Australian English and American English. But...

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Plotting a Story: 5 Top Plot Tips for Authors

In fiction, the term ‘plot’ refers to the events that make up a story. But...

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Word Choice: Pray vs. Prey

The mantis is an interesting creature: it looks like it’s praying, but it’s really preying....

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How to Add a Watermark to a Microsoft Word Document

If you need a document to look professional, or to clearly mark it as confidential...

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When to Use an Image in an Essay

Pages of text alone can look quite dull. And while ‘dull’ may seem normal enough...

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Word Choice: Tire vs. Tyre

English spelling is full of words that sound the same despite differing in spelling. However,...

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5 Reasons Your Business Needs a Blog

Welcome to our blog. Why does a proofreading company have a blog, you ask? The...

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Word Choice: Reoccur vs. Recur

Many of the homophones we look at on this blog have completely different uses from...

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Using Text Styles in Google Docs

Many people now use Google Docs to create and share documents. And to make sure...

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Setting Paper Size in a LaTeX Document

When creating a LaTeX document, you need to set a document class. Each class in...

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Grammatical Person: The First, Second, and Third Person

As proofreaders, we could describe ourselves as ‘grammatical people’. We won’t, though, because ‘grammatical person’...

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Fallacy Watch: What Is Faulty Generalisation?

Faulty generalisation is a common fallacy – an error in an argument – in both...

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