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Tom Selleck has beautiful eyes. We know that’s a little weird for an opening sentence...
When writing a longer paper, like a thesis or PhD dissertation, it makes sense to...
Nobody likes a deadline. If nothing else, it has the word “dead” in it, which...
The Bluebook sets out uniform conventions for referencing legal documents, so anyone studying US law...
Apostrophes have a bad habit of turning up in unexpected places. Confusion between “its” and...
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The “Harvard” referencing system – actually a generic term for author-date referencing – is used...
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We’ve all been there. You’re in a restaurant with friends. You finish your main course...
The SAT was recently updated to reflect its ongoing importance to higher education in the...
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It is Cinco de Mayo soon, so we’re looking at some English words that came...
Maybe you picked your major to pursue a specific career, but most of us go...
We use determiners in front of nouns to show what they refer to. The difference...
The “Caption” options in Microsoft Word allow you to label images, diagrams, charts, illustrations and...