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You have written an essay and sent it to your supervisor. He has reviewed it and sent it back, but instead of marking it with red pen, as all your other teachers do, he has used the Track Changes under the Review tab in Word. You have never seen this before and don’t know what to do. Here’s where this...

When writing a thesis or an academic paper, we heavily rely on previously published sources. To avoid plagiarism, they have to be cited both in the main body of text as well as in Bibliography (also known as References, or Works Cited), following the formatting rules stipulated by the style guide of...

What is a White Paper? The definition of a white paper is somewhat broad. It initially referred to mainly government papers, which can later be extended to include commercial documents. Nonetheless, a white paper is a term that describes an authoritative report or guide on a specific subject. Thus, they...

As a college or university student, you doubtless learn to master academic English to improve your papers. It is often different from everyday spoken English and has all kinds of strict rules – some very simple and some incredibly complicated. One secret of productive academic writing will be to edit...

On many word processing programs, there is a spell-checker function. Because all spell-checking programs are different, this article will provide general tips for the use of these programs as well as information about using this feature in Microsoft Word, since that particular word processing program...