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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...

Say you’ve been busy trying to write a novel, or a reference book or your autobiography. You’ve worked diligently for months or years to finally finish your book. Now it’s time to decide on a publisher for your writing, which is often a precise and painstaking process. It’s incredibly important to find...

These days most people are using the Internet to find the majority of the information for their articles, theses, dissertations and so on. This is fine, but it can be confusing when it comes to citing websites as sources. Reading a journal or newspaper article is fine as the author can still be cited...