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  2. Dialogue in writing - Wikipedia

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    Dialogue is usually identified by the use of quotation marks and a dialogue tag, such as 'she said'. [5] "This breakfast is making me sick," George said. 'George said' is the dialogue tag, [6] which is also known as an identifier, an attributive, [7] a speaker attribution, [8] a speech attribution, [9] a dialogue tag, and a tag line. [10]

  3. In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

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    The first essay relates between two ways of writing, one precise and disciplined, and one more convulsive. The margins between them become a metaphor for the tension in her writing between “careful” precision and a more “unruly” instinct, where the words “erupt” and overflow, as she says, drawing on volcanic imagery. [ 2 ]

  4. Imaginary Conversations - Wikipedia

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    Algernon Charles Swinburne concluded his essay on the author in the 1882 volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica with the opinion that "the very finest flower of his dialogues is probably to be found in the single volume Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans; his command of passion and pathos may be tested by its success in the distilled ...

  5. The Art of the Novel - Wikipedia

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    The essay was not written by Kundera as one text, but rather as various individual texts written in specific circumstances, designed to be published in a single work. [ 1 ] In 1983, Kundera wrote "The Depreciated Legacy of Cervantes," which later became the first part of The Art of the Novel.

  6. Rhetorical modes - Wikipedia

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    But a narrative essay differs from a descriptive one in its emphasis on time and sequence. The essayist turns storyteller, establishing when and in what order a series of related events occurred. [8] Exactly the same guidelines that hold for a descriptive or narrative essay can be used for the descriptive or narrative paragraph.

  7. Dialogue journal - Wikipedia

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    Research on dialogue journal use at all age levels—with native speakers of the language of the writing, first and second language learners, deaf students, and teachers—has identified key features of dialogue journal communication that set it apart from most writing in educational settings: authentic communication, collaborative learning and knowledge building, critical thinking, personal ...

  8. Template:Dialogue - Wikipedia

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    This is a complex template designed to make it easy to write out lines of dialogue. This template cannot be subst:'d. The template can handle most standard formats of writing dialogue, and can be indented, bulleted or numbered. {} facilitates the writing of dialogue in a standard format.

  9. Essay - Wikipedia

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    In English essay first meant "a trial" or "an attempt", and this is still an alternative meaning. The Frenchman Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) was the first author to describe his work as essays; he used the term to characterize these as "attempts" to put his thoughts into writing. Subsequently, essay has been