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Your headline is the first thing a potential reader sees. You therefore need it to...
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Although ‘fate’ and ‘fete’ sound alike, they have very different meanings. Check out our advice...
Do you prefer to work in inches rather than centimetres? Or vice versa? Or maybe...
Today, 21 April, is Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday (or one of them, at least). To...
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If you are writing about the armed forces or police, you may need to talk...
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The citation tools in Google Docs make adding citations and references in an essay or...
Are ‘dialogue’ and ‘dialog’ just different spellings of the same word? Or is there a...
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An annotated bibliography is a way of summarising and evaluating research on a particular topic....
If you write about music in your work, you might have to cite a recording....
A fallacy is a bad or faulty argument. One such fallacy, associated with academic writing,...
We use the perfect tenses to describe actions that have been completed or that happened...