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“Eventually” and “ultimately” have plenty in common. Both are ten letters long. Both have “-ly”...
Brevity is famously the soul of wit, but it’s also highly valued in academia and...
A frightful hobgoblin is stalking academia. Its name is plagiarism. This isn’t a new problem,...
The automatic spellchecker in Microsoft Word is far from perfect, but it can be useful for...
MLA referencing, as developed by the Modern Language Association, is a way of citing sources...
Robots haven’t gotten us into a Terminator-style doomsday situation yet, even if Stephen Hawking is...
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Chicago referencing is a flexible system for citing sources in academic writing. If it’s your...
We live in the United States of America. Other countries go without a “the” –...
Unlike Me, Myself and Irene, the terrible Jim Carrey movie, the words “me,” “myself” and...
You’ve done the hard work in the laboratory, taking precise measurements and recording them diligently....
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With more and more research now done online, knowing how to cite a website is...
Are there any two words more commonly confused than “lay” and “lie”? It’s hard to...