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...however, perfectly acceptable to give yourself and your friends less reading than others. Justify it as a perk for all the hard work you’ll be doing copying and pasting all those summaries into one document. 2. Brevity. A summary should be a SUMMARY. Writing a novel is annoying, not impressive. 3. Promptness. It is acceptable to hand your summaries in a little late. Don’t delay for more than a day, though, or you might find yourself permanently banished from the study group. And we all know reading sucks. 4. Integrity. Do not share...
...sort. He simply suggests reading, then—five minutes into every class—asks whether students have found the time to complete it. When students sheepishly admit that they just couldn't fit those hundred pages into their busy schedules, he recommends that they read the novel over Spring Break...
...reading”—there’s a lot of it but it is very useful, and will enable you to chime into abortion debates with enlightened comments like, “Actually, the privacy language in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) is not as novel as one has been led to believe—in fact, the discussion of a constitutional ‘right to privacy’ dates back to an 1890 Harvard Law Review article by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis.” Notice in particular the use of explicit dates...
...from Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), an English professor who helps Harold locate the source of the voice: that of reclusive novelist Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson), whose current project is a book, about an I.R.S. agent named Harold Crick, called Death and Taxes. Harold fears that when she completes the novel, he'll die. Which is fine by Hilbert, a great admirer of Eiffel. "You have to die," he tells Harold. "It's her masterpiece...
...Teddy Wayne lives in New York City and St. Louis. He is working on a novel and a humor collection. Read more of his writing at the following websites: McSweeney's Internet Tendency Yankee Pot Roast...