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Good formatting is important. After all, you need your text to be easy to read,...
Did you know that you can reference more than one source at once? This is...
The difference between the present and past is important. After all, you’d never get anything...
In this post, we’ll be looking at four ways to format emphasis in Microsoft Word:...
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“Carpe diem” is a Latin phrase often translated as “seize the day.” It’s used to...
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We’ve been told that putting 110% into anything is mathematically impossible. But we’re proofreaders, not...
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Sometimes typos are obvious. If you write “teh” instead of “the,” for example, it’s easy...