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Cover letter hacks that will make your cover letter unmissable for any employer. A guide for students on how to write the best cover letter.

Proofreading involves correcting surface errors in grammar, punctuation and spelling. Editing, on the other hand, seeks to improve your essay's overall quality. Feedback can help with both.

McPhee’s much anticipated Draft No.4, On the Writing Process, is both deeply nostalgic and quirkily entertaining. For budding writers it offers an eclectic collection of anecdotes, touchstones and mud-maps, alongside earnest encouragement for those immersed in the sometimes brutal process of “knitting a novel”, writes Mike Larsen.

How do you distinguish between narrative and persuasive essays? A simple search tells us that a narrative essay tells a story, while a persuasive essay makes an argument. However, English specialist, Jeanie Tseng, tells us why it's not as easy as that.

Here's what we can learn from cricket to improve kids' NAPLAN writing scores | Studiosity

How do we use lessons from gaming to build better writers? An extract from Jack Goodman's presentation at the National Boys' Education Conference | Studiosity

A look at free essay writing tools and online spell checkers, including grammarly, turnitin and Studiosity.