• 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