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Chicago referencing is widely used in academic writing. It has various rules for how and...
If you have created a new product or process, a user manual should help people...
Today marks the start of the five-day Hindu festival of Diwali, also known as the...
In academic writing, a ‘fallacy’ is a bad argument. But what is the bandwagon fallacy?...
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You may need to keep track of the number of words in a document (e.g....
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The words ‘wait’ and ‘weight’ sound the same, which can make them confusing! But these...
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Reviews of books, films, and other media can be great sources in academic writing. But...
If you have a problem, are you facing a ‘dilemma’ or a ‘dilemna’? Only one...
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A professional bio explains who you are and what you do. But the style and...
In a previous post, we set out the basics of what cultural appropriation involves and...
We use conditional sentences to talk about hypotheticals (i.e. things that might happen). These sentences...
It is easy to mix up the words ‘sheath’ and ‘sheathe’ as they are related...