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Multi highlighter Find academic words, collocations and formulas in a text

This tool combines the three academic highlighters found on the website, namely the AWL highlighter, the ACL highlighter and the AFL highlighter. Enter the text in the box below then choose which highlighter you want to use. Once you have used one type, you can continue to use the other ones to highlight words from a different list.



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Author: Sheldon Smith    ‖    Last modified: 11 March 2020.

Sheldon Smith is the founder and editor of EAPFoundation.com. He has been teaching English for Academic Purposes since 2004. Find out more about him in the about section and connect with him on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.



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