Guides

Practical, plain-English guides for students and writers — each one paired with a free tool.

• How long is an essay?Word counts converted to pages and reading time, typical lengths by level, and what counts towards a limit.
• How to cut your word countEight edits that remove words without removing ideas, with before-and-after examples.
• Title case rules: APA, Chicago, MLA and APWhich words to capitalise in a title, compared across the four major style guides.
• Percentage change vs percentage pointsThe measures students mix up, with formulas, worked examples and three classic traps.
• The 10 most common JSON errorsTrailing commas, single quotes, comments and more — with the fix for each.