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Today (2 April) is International Children’s Book Day. Its aim is to foster a love...
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The words ‘air’ and ‘heir’ sound the same, which makes it easy to confuse them...
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The ‘add-ins’ in Microsoft Word can be very useful, offering simple ways to complete tasks...
If you are writing about technical subjects, you might need to cite a patent at...
When you write a live music review, you want to capture the experience of being...
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The words ‘yoke’ and ‘yolk’ sound similar, but they mean different things. As such, you...
Did you know you can cite someone else’s thesis or dissertation in your own work?...
You might not know the words ‘synecdoche’ or ‘metonymy’, but these rhetorical devices are common...
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The UN’s World Poetry Day (21 March) is a day for celebrating poetry and poets...
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