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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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Adjusting Text Alignment

Good formatting is important. After all, you need your text to be easy to read,...

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Word Choice: Choose vs. Chose

The difference between the present and past is important. After all, you’d never get anything...

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Formatting for Emphasis

In this post, we’ll be looking at four ways to format emphasis in Microsoft Word:...

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Percent, Per Cent and Percentages

We’ve been told that putting 110% into anything is mathematically impossible. But we’re proofreaders, not...

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Spelling Tips: 8 Words with Variant Spellings

Spelling isn’t easy. It’s bad enough we have words that sound the same but are spelled...

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Writing Tips: How to Use Block Quotes

Quoting sources is crucial in academic writing. It shows you’ve read up on your subject....

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Word Choice: Program vs. Programme

The Atlantic Ocean is quite big. And with such a large amount of water between...

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Grammar Tips: Using the Past Tense

The past includes everything that has ever happened. And with every second that passes, the...

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Grammar Tips: What Is a Sentence Fragment?

Being proofreaders, we’re keen on keeping things grammatical. As such, we feel sad when we...

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Word Choice: Causal vs. Casual

Sometimes typos are obvious. If you write “teh” instead of “the,” for example, it’s easy...

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How to Use Abbreviations (6 Top Tips)

Abbreviations can be tricky, so it’s important to use them correctly. That’s why we’ve created...

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Microsoft Word Tips: Using Track Changes

One trick of the modern proofreader’s trade is the “Track Changes” function in Microsoft Word....

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