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It is National Doughnut Day today. This raises two main questions: Why is there a...
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You need to quote sources in academic writing. But how this works may depend on...
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When we see that two things happen together, we may assume one causes the other....
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Dialogue – i.e. the words spoken by characters in a story – is a vital...
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If you know much about law in Australia, you should know the term ‘AGLC’ already....
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As much as we love British English, we’ll admit that Noah Webster had a point....
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A meta description is an HTML ‘meta tag’ that gives a short summary of a...
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We pronounce -cede, -ceed and -sede to sound like ‘seed’. But this makes it easy...
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‘Viscous’ and ‘vicious’ are both adjectives. They’re also close enough in spelling that it’s easy...
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Knowing when to capitalise religious terms can be hell. Or should that be Hell? And...
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‘Alternatively’ and ‘alternately’ look similar because they both come from the Latin term alternatus. However,...
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How long does a story need to be? With flash fiction, it can be anything...
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