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Writing brief accounts on the main ideas of a text instead of collecting quotes.
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
language that can powerfully evoke and enforce hidden signs of racial superiority, cultural hegemony, and dismissive “othering”
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
follows: RULE 1. YOU MUST KNOW WHAT KIND OF BOOK YOU ARE READING, AND YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS AS EARLY IN THE PROCESS AS POSSIBLE, PREFERABLY BEFORE YOU BEGIN TO READ.
Charles Van Doren • How to Read a Book
Summary of Inspectional Reading
Charles Van Doren • How to Read a Book
‘Dorian Gray’.
Sarah Waters • Tipping The Velvet (VMC Designer Collection)
The words are short and have air around them; they convey the rhythms of human speech. The second one is clotted with long words.
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
simplicity does not necessarily equal clarity.
Jill Stephen • Writing Analytically, 5th Edition
“I’ve been grading my students’ lab reports both for their scientific merit,” Professor Potts said, “and for the language in which they tell me what they did, what their results were and how they interpret those results.