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Today, April 21, is Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday (or one of them, at least). To...
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If you are writing about the armed forces or police, you may need to talk...
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The citation tools in Google Docs make adding citations and references in an essay or...
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Are “dialogue” and “dialog” just different spellings of the same word? Or is there a...
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If you write about music in your work, you might have to cite a recording....
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A fallacy is a bad or faulty argument. One such fallacy, associated with academic writing,...
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We use the perfect tenses to describe actions that have been completed or that happened...
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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...
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The words “yoke” and “yolk” sound similar, but they mean different things. As such, you...
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Did you know you can cite someone else’s thesis or dissertation in your own work?...
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You might not know the words “synecdoche” or “metonymy,” but these rhetorical devices are common...
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