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...Staff writer Zoe A. Y. Weinberg can be reached at zoe.weinberg@college.harvard.edu...
It’s happened to everyone, be it when you fill out a survey for a thesis writer, send in a missing form, or remind someone about tomorrow’s meeting. The responses come uniformly back: “Thanks!!!” You have to wonder: is the responder really as excited about answering as they sound? In any case, ending ordinary e-mail or text message correspondences in this manner has become increasingly normal. However, it illustrates a dangerous trend in punctuation: the overuse of the exclamation point. Although the more frequent use of this point...
Though she admits she might have been a “creep as a little girl,” Hale says that these clandestine activities allowed her to better understand people—an important skill for any writer, she adds...
...English concentrator who wrote a collection of short stories for his creative thesis, Justin T Keenan ’10 says that E. Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Brokeback Mountain,” has been an influential contemporary writer. He points to Proulx’s short stories, including “The Half-Skinned Steer” and “The Bunchgrass Edge of the World,” as works that showed him the importance of location in fiction...
Another Harvard writer, Isabel E. Kaplan ’12, says she has been inspired by the storybooks of her childhood—principally the popular children’s series “Ramona” by Beverly Cleary. In fact, Kaplan says that she decided to become a writer after reading Cleary’s books at the age of five...