Colons: How to Use Them
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Do I introduce an author’s full name and the full title of a work in each chapter of a book or dissertation?
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Using the Present Tense with Works; or, Othello Still Exists
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Serial Commas and Serial Semicolons
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Using “I” in Academic Writing
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