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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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Sentence Types: Simple, Complex and Compound

Expressing yourself clearly in writing is easier if you know how various sentence types are...

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5 Places To Go When You Need Somewhere to Study

So you’ve got an essay to research, a large pile of textbooks, and your laptop...

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Off the Beaten Path: 7 Unusual Career Options in the UK

While some students pick their degree based upon a pre-established career plan, many of us...

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Using Track Changes in Microsoft Word

Editing a document can be hard work (as proofreaders, we know this better than anyone)....

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Harvard Referencing – Citing Ebooks

We wouldn’t be surprised to find out that modern students have much healthier spines than...

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Writing an Email: Salutations and Valedictions

Effective email communication is an important part of modern business. Reaching out to a new...

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Word Choice: There, Their or They’re?

There are few terms more commonly mixed up than ‘there’, ‘their’ and ‘they’re’. And when...

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Healthy Living for Students: 6 Vital Tips

The New Year is just round the corner, and we imagine many of you have...

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Punctuation Tips: How to Use Commas Correctly

For such a common punctuation mark, the comma is a tricky fellow. Certainly, this is...

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An Etymological Christmas

‘Tis the season to be jolly (fa la la la la, la la la la)...

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APA Referencing – Citing a Newspaper Article

There may be times when you need to cite a newspaper article in an essay,...

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Word Choice: Explicit vs. Implicit

Antonyms (i.e. words with opposite meanings) often look similar. Take ‘explicit’ and ‘implicit’, for example:...

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