Sentences in Harry Potter, Students in Future Writing Classes

E. Duffy

DOI:10.1207/S15327981RR2102_03

Corpus ID: 144654506

Sentences in Harry Potter, Students in Future Writing Classes

@article{Duffy2002SentencesIH,
  title={Sentences in Harry Potter, Students in Future Writing Classes},
  author={E. Duffy},
  journal={Rhetoric Review},
  year={2002},
  volume={21},
  pages={170 - 187}
}

E. Duffy
Published 2002
Sociology
Rhetoric Review

All families, happy and unhappy, have their rituals. One of the happier rituals in ours has been each of us reading at bedtime to our girls. But I must confess that two years ago I was becoming increasingly bored and impatient with a constant dose of writing not far beyond the syntactical complexity of Dick and Jane. Having already read hundreds of such books with Katherine, I did not exactly relish Nora putting me through the same dull old round again. Then we all discovered Harry Potter, and… Expand

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