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Original: 2/7/2007 9:26 AM
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007
 
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Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift Editions)
By Henry David Thoreau
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The importance of drafts...

This is the type of thing I edit out of my essays:

"I'd like to begin this essay as I began this essay: with a series of questions. I began with the question why is Henry David Thoreau writing – not posed merely out of frustration that he did – but also out of a genuine curiosity arising from his articulation of what he values."




Additionally, I would like to make the case that the fact that "Thoreau" and "thorough" are loosely homonyms is a significant coincidence or not coincidental at all..
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I'd like to read your early drafts. If I had time, that is. If I didn't have essays, and then more essays, to write. That second comma may have been redundant. Oh well.

Hi, Erica. I'm about a third into Walden. I think I'll sell my clothes and house now.

Posted 2/7/2007 10:42 AM by qwiggles Xanga True Member - reply

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I once wrote for a Theatre History essay:

"It is important to note that Shakespeare's audience was more likely to be orally stimulated than today's audience."

I always wish I had left that in.

Posted 2/8/2007 6:49 PM by lizbewcannon - reply

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My Disney movies and Archie comics didn't prepare for the sort a language used in that post.
Posted 2/9/2007 12:46 AM by Perthster - reply

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Obviously, there should be a "me" in there, let's just say it's a a silent "me"...
Posted 2/9/2007 12:48 AM by Perthster - reply

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Angelo if I see you at school with clothes on I will know you have not found your woods and will be very disppointed in you.

I wish you had left it in too, Liz. Then you could entertain me by recounting the professor's response.

Sebas, did you know that homonym means a word having the same sound but different meaning as another word, while hominine means resembling or characteristic of humans and that the two words are homonymal but not precisely homynyms?
Posted 2/12/2007 2:03 AM by EricaLeeLeeLee - reply

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Hahhah Erica...that last comment was highly amusing!
Posted 2/12/2007 3:59 PM by GWICKENDEN - reply

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Erica, will you include your last comment in any grad school applications? You should, you made someone with no grammar 'fetish' laugh at grammar humour, surely the people who review application would be amused on a deeper level than I ever could.
Posted 2/13/2007 9:52 AM by Perthster - reply


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