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Quoting sources is crucial in academic writing. It shows you’ve read up on your subject....
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The Atlantic Ocean is quite big. And with such a large amount of water between...
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The past includes everything that has ever happened. And with every second that passes, the...
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Being proofreaders, we’re keen on keeping things grammatical. As such, we feel sad when we...
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Sometimes typos are obvious. If you write “teh” instead of “the,” for example, it’s easy...
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Abbreviations can be tricky, so it’s important to use them correctly. That’s why we’ve created...
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One trick of the modern proofreader’s trade is the “Track Changes” function in Microsoft Word....
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For such a common punctuation mark, commas cause a lot of confusion. But there are...
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With social media, information now spreads faster than ever. And you might even need to...
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The author Kingsley Amis once said, “I have found by experience that no one persistently using...
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If English isn’t your first language, knowing when to use an article before a noun...
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When people mix up the words “assume” and “presume,” it’s not because they’re similarly spelled....
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