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Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
Judy Blume said that she was inspired to write the story following the success of her preceding novel Are You There God?It's Me, Margaret. Given her earlier novel was about a girl entering puberty and making the transition to womanhood, she decided to write one about a boy going through puberty and making a transition to manhood: "I decided it would be interesting to try out life as a twelve ...
A viral Internet tale of a Catholic high-school girl who ran a library of banned books from her locker inspired the storyline of Ban This Book.Although the story was later revealed to be a hoax, Alan Gratz kept the idea around and worked on the story for several years.
Chapter One: Close Reading; Prose discusses the question of whether writing can be taught. She answers the question by suggesting that although writing workshops can be helpful, the best way to learn to write is to read. Closely reading books, Prose studied word choice and sentence construction.
The novel is divided into 63 chapters, seemingly arbitrarily. A new chapter rarely offers any sort of "break" with a previous one; in most cases a thought which was being discussed at the conclusion of the previous chapter continues uninterrupted in the next; chapter breaks are thus used no differently from paragraph breaks.
The Uncommon Reader is a novella by Alan Bennett.After appearing first in the London Review of Books, Vol. 29, No. 5 (8 March 2007), it was published later the same year in book form by Faber & Faber and Profile Books.
The story is also included as the first entry in King's 2008 short-fiction collection Just After Sunset. In the endnotes in the collection called "Sunset Notes", King writes of this story: "This probably isn't the best story in the book, but I love it very much, because it ushered in a new period of creativity for me – as regards the short ...
[1] On November 17, 2021, the novel was awarded the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction . [ 2 ] It was also longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction , [ 3 ] the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize , [ 4 ] and the 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize .