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Top tips for students

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Post published:July 27, 2012
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Read the question very carefully. Answer the question. Write a short introduction – explain what you will be discussing. Let it flow – on the initial draft, get down all…

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Etymology – the origin of words

Post author:foolproof
Post published:May 9, 2012
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‘Spelk’. It’s one of the thousands of words that I store in my internal library – and when the need arises, it is the word I would naturally elect to…

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