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		<title>How to Change the Language Region to US English on OxfordDictionaries.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick post today with a little tip. I usually use Merriam-Webster dictionary because it is the preferred source of spelling for most major US editorial styles. However, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fastest, Most Accurate Way to Find &amp; Format Block Quotes in APA, Chicago, MLA and Other Styles</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are creating a document that has a lot of quotes&#8211;maybe a qualitative study&#8211;you will have to format some of your quotes as block quotes. Block quotes are quotes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Apostrophe or Two?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a quick tip for you today.  The question is, when you&#8217;re citing a study by multiple authors, do you put an apostrophe with all of the authors&#8217; names, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avoid Unnecessary Prepositions with Some Verbs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I talked about avoiding redundant verbs. In this post, I&#8217;ll discuss another conciseness issue that authors often run into with verbs: adding an unnecessary word after the verb. In many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where are the JACS Reference Guidelines?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 02:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was formatting some references, I had to locate the reference guidelines for the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). Wow, that was tough! If you&#8217;re in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Add an Extra &#8220;s&#8221; After the Apostrophe for Names that End in &#8220;s&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is common to cite studies by referring to the author&#8217;s last name. For most names, this is easy.  For instance, if Smith published a study in 2013, we can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avoid Redundant Verbs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clarity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Issue Every day I come across sentences in which authors accidentally repeat the same meaning. Redundancy can take many forms, but for this post we&#8217;ll focus on the use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Different from&#8221; versus &#8220;Unlike&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 02:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I see this commonly in scholarly papers, so I figured I&#8217;d make a quick post about it. Often I will see a sentence that begins with the words &#8220;Different from.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Race vs Ethnicity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 20:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the difference between race and ethnicity? This is a common question, and there is not an easy answer. In this post, I present the views from various academic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>除了: Expressing Except (for) in English</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocky</dc:creator>
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