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-"using ‘like’ to introduce examples: e.g. Green vegetables like kale and spinach … "

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-"phrasal verbs: e.g. give up, take away, cover up"

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-"slang: e.g. kids, gonna"

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-"The exclamation mark (!) is seldom used. "

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-"clichés (overused expressions that have lost their originality): e.g. every coin has two sides; a double-edged sword. "

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-"Evidence required. Referencing is common: e.g. Research findings show that plagiarism is common in Australian universities (Williams, 2016)."

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-"subjective terms: e.g. good, right, wrong, beautiful, fantastic etc."

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-"an increasing number of" rather than "more and more people"

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-"Do not begin sentences with ‘and’. ‘And’ connects two indepenedent clauses."