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One way that Academic Approach benefits from its partnership with The Economist is by using the magazine’s content to hone our students’ reading comprehension skills. Each week, we offer our students and tutors tips that can be used to make the most out of the magazine.

The exercises that correspond to this week’s issue—subtitled “The Great American Slowdown”—are as follows: Continue reading →

One way that Academic Approach benefits from its partnership with The Economist is by using the magazine’s content to hone our students’ reading comprehension skills. Each week, we offer our students and tutors tips that can be used to make the most out of the magazine.

The exercises that correspond to this week’s issue—subtitled “All Change?”—are as follows: Continue reading →

The only thing that tops an octopus tripping the light fantastic across the ocean floor is—let’s face it—a shrimp on a treadmill. This physically fit shrimp not only inspired the Academic Approach staff to hit the gym, but it also caused us to ask whether all shrimp were in such excellent cardiovascular health? . . .Or did we mean all shrimps? Continue reading →

When you walk past a sign that says “Protective Eyewear Required” you aren’t necessarily moved to comment on its author’s mastery of the English language. This is likely because you have not viewed its dastardly alternative: “100% Eye Protection Required”. . .
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One way that Academic Approach benefits from its partnership with The Economist is by using the magazine’s content to hone our students’ reading comprehension skills. Each week, we offer our students and tutors tips that can be used to make the most out of the magazine.

The exercises that correspond to this week’s issue—subtitled “The new colonialists”—are as follows: Continue reading →

In a current advertisement for Juvederm, an injectable gel that treats wrinkles, we receive a beauty lesson and a punctuation tutorial all in one. The ad starts out innocently enough with the line “So smooth and natural, everyone will notice (but no one will know).” While this sentence has issues with ambiguity, its parentheses are employed beautifully. “But no one will know” is set off artfully from the rest of the sentence with parentheses, as opposed to a mere comma or a dash, as a means of deemphasizing the phrase, implying that it is something to be whispered. But what, may I ask, is going on in the rest of the ad?

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One way that Academic Approach benefits from its partnership with The Economist is by using the magazine’s content to hone our students’ reading comprehension skills. Each week, we offer our students and tutors tips that can be used to make the most out of the magazine.

The exercises that correspond to the March 8th issue—subtitled “What’s holding India back?”—are as follows: Continue reading →

We stand humbled in the presence of this most heavenly grammar critique. Hats off to The Soup!

After last week’s extensive discussion of octopoid conjugation and etymology, we at Academic Approach could not have been more intrigued to see today’s breaking news on CNN’s website: “World’s first six-legged octopus discovered.” Thank you, CNN, most sincerely, for covering this topic. However, in case you decide to do more reporting in this field, we do have a few points to address—six to be exact…

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One way that Academic Approach benefits from its partnership with The Economist is by using the magazine’s content to hone our students’ reading comprehension skills. Each week, we offer our students and tutors tips that can be used to make the most out of the magazine.

The exercises that correspond to the March 1st issue are as follows: Continue reading →