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Harvard Referencing – How to Cite a Newspaper Article

Newspapers and magazines aren’t the most common sources in academic writing. Nevertheless, you may need...

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Rules for Writing Place Names with “The”

We live in the United States of America. Other countries go without a “the” –...

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Word Choice: Here vs. Hear

‘Here’ and ‘hear’ are both common English words and sound identical when spoken. Nevertheless, these...

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Adding Page Numbers in Microsoft Word

Compared to some of the fancier options in Microsoft Word, the ability to add page...

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The Anatomy of a First Class Thesis Proposal

So, you’ve decided to do a PhD. That’s good. But before you get stuck into...

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Word Choice: Dependant vs. Dependent

The words ‘dependant’ and ‘dependent’ cause a lot of confusion. This is due to being...

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APA Referencing – How to Cite an Edited Book

Even if you know the basics of APA referencing, citing an edited book can be...

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Irregular Plurals: Spelling Tricks You Need to Know

Why, English? Why do you do this to us? Whenever we think we’ve figured out...

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5 Top Tips for Writing a Letter of Complaint

In a perfect world, everything would work all the time and we’d never have to...

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Gendered Pronouns in Academic Writing

Pronouns – words that can take the place of a noun in a sentence –...

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How to Set Text Direction in Microsoft Word

99.9% of the time in English language writing, sentences start on the left hand side...

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Independence Day (The Language of the Declaration of Independence)

Happy Fourth of July! 240 years ago today, America’s founding fathers agreed to adopt the...

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