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The 5 Weirdest Australian Jobs

If you are getting ready to graduate, or just looking for a way to earn...

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Spelling Differences Between American and Australian English

If you are an international student, you may have noticed some of the differences between...

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6 Tips for Coping with Exam Day!

Your palms are sweaty, you feel hot and bothered, everything around you feels like a...

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Alternatives to the Word ‘But’ for Academic Writing

Anne might not be the most celebrated Brontë, but she was on to something in...

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Word Choice: Two, To and Too

The English language’s annoying habit of persistent homophony – having multiple words which are pronounced...

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How to Reference an Ebook – OSCOLA Style

The Oxford Standard for Citations of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA for short) is a standardised system...

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6 Things that make Humans Better at Proofreading than a Computer

One day, Skynet will undoubtedly conquer us all, whereupon we’ll have no choice but to...

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5 Signs You Should Invest In Proofreading

When you have just finished writing an essay, the last thing anyone ever wants to...

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Word Choice: Implicit vs. Explicit

In academic writing we often use words which we might not know from daily life....

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Word Choice: Exhort vs. Extort

Although ‘exhort’ and ‘extort’ differ in meaning, it’s still easy to get these terms mixed...

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Word Choice: Dependent vs. Dependant

It was already easy to mix up the similarly-spelled words ‘dependent’ and ‘dependant’. But then...

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Word Choice: Continually vs. Continuously

Mixing up the words ‘continually’ and ‘continuously’ is something that even native English speakers do....

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