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Learning Some Key Words for Academic Writing

Some of the words commonly used in academic writing are similar – in sound or in meaning – to other words you probably know, so learning how to use these words can be confusing: Do you “cite a site” or “site a cite”? Did that “allusion elude you” or did that “illusion allude you”? Get the point?!
Learn this word list, a mixture of academic words and the words that people most often confuse with them.
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