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Hi, You'll find a lot of guidelines from British universities on the Internet ( CLICK HERE ) _________________________ The only basic rule to avoid plagiarism is as follows: in your pieces of coursework, quote every single sentence or concept which is not your own -- unless it's...

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Aoosh, welcome to the forums. I'm sorry to say that you have a significant number of errors in your essay. Here are two things I see: you use commas to join sentences together instead of periods, and you have left out the subject in many of your sentences. For example "Builds togetherness...

I need to know if I am using my commas semi-colons, and colons right. Additionally, it would be greatly appreciated if anyone would like to comment on the essay! When two friends or a couple decide to become roommates they may think that the transition will be smooth because they have...

Hello, I am Richard, a Dutch undergraduate student applying for a Masters programme in London, England. As a part of the application form, I have to give 'further information' , which I interpreted as roughly analogous to a letter of motivation: " 9. Further Information Please state your...

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me with a small point which is stumping me. I'm proof-reading an essay for my boyfriend, and I've stumbled upon the following sentence: "based on the unit’s admission guidelines 2 she would be seen by the outreach team" The superscript '2' is referring to a...

Hi Anon, I suggest you not put any spaces before commas and periods . See the period? I left a space after the period, but not before. You also have a lot of unnecessary punctuations. Being a senior in a highschool in Moldova, it would seem easy to tell about what are my fe ll ings...

Hi Crazy-- I finally got here. I have added some comments in brackets after underlined 'problems': Do Sports and Drugs Mix? Since the dawn of time years while playing football and was the quarter back of our team. Everyone thought he was going to make it to the NFL but during our...

In these different constructions, different types of things are ellipted. 1) My father bought me a cell phone which is as small as a mouse. . Fish is the direct object of caught . Many is an adjective modifying fish , and the first as is an adverb modifying many . Again, the second as is a...

Hi Nadja, Nice use of expressions in this essay. Here are some corrections. There are one or two places where a word in your original is not necessary, though there is nothing wrong with using it. I have indicated these by putting square brackets around the word. Let me know if you don’t...