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Happy Fourth of July! 240 years ago today, America’s founding fathers agreed to adopt the...
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The words “economic” and “economical” are the stuff pedants’ nightmares are made of. This is...
APA style referencing is used for citing sources in academic writing. A big part of...
Y’all know the drill by now. Your professor sets an assignment. You head to the...
Adding page numbers to a Microsoft Word document is a fundamental element of formatting. This...
So you’ve been to an academic conference and you want to cite a presentation you’ve...
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Does the English language really need both “began” and “begun”? Wouldn’t it be simpler to...
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You may have heard the terms “active voice” and “passive voice” before, but many people...
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When writing a longer paper, like a thesis or PhD dissertation, it makes sense to...
Nobody likes a deadline. If nothing else, it has the word “dead” in it, which...
The Bluebook sets out uniform conventions for referencing legal documents, so anyone studying US law...