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If you are at university, you may be asked to write a reflective essay at...
The indentation options in Microsoft Word allow you to set a passage of text apart...
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Being stuck in a room with more than one octopus is always worrying. And this...
Before hiring a proofreader, you need to know what kind of service you want. There...
Quoting sources in an essay is a bit like cutting your toenails: useful to do...
Today, we’re looking at some oft-overlooked punctuation marks: the backslash and the forward slash. But...
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The Big Bad Wolf is a rule breaker. And not just because of his penchant...
We’re back in Homophone Corner with two words that sound exactly the same: ‘brake’ and...
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Handling your own headings is one thing, but how should you write the titles of...
It’s not often we invoke William Blake in the title of a blog post, but...
‘Terminal punctuation’ might sound dangerous (as if commas posed a health risk). But it’s actually...
The word ‘medium’ has several meanings. More confusingly still, it also has two distinct plurals...