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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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Prefixes and How to Use Them

Although we’ve got nothing on German, the English language sometimes involves putting different ‘parts’ of...

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Word Choice: What vs. Which in Questions

We can use both ‘what’ and ‘which’ to ask questions. We can even use them...

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Word Choice: Quick vs. Fast

Whoosh! Zoom! Wheee! We have a need for speed today, so we’re focusing on the...

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Word Choice: Doughnut vs. Donut

It is National Doughnut Day today. This raises two main questions: Why is there a...

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How to Quote Sources in MLA Referencing

You need to quote sources in academic writing. But how this works may depend on...

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The False Cause Fallacy: Correlation Does Not Equal Causation

When we see that two things happen together, we may assume one causes the other....

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Punctuating and Formatting Dialogue

Dialogue – i.e. the words spoken by characters in a story – is a vital...

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Legal Citation – Citing Legislation with AGLC Referencing

If you know much about law in Australia, you should know the term ‘AGLC’ already....

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Word Choice: Draft vs. Draught

As much as we love British English, we’ll admit that Noah Webster had a point....

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How to Write a Meta Description

A meta description is an HTML ‘meta tag’ that gives a short summary of a...

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Spelling Tips: -Cede, -Ceed or -Sede?

We pronounce -cede, -ceed and -sede to sound like ‘seed’. But this makes it easy...

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Word Choice: Espresso vs. Expresso

Like many proofreaders, we’re coffee powered. There’s nothing like a caffeine hit in the morning...

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