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