To: Tax-chick
Speaking of efficiency, another fun composition exercise (fun for the instructor :-) is to tell the student to reduce the length of the composition by half, without leaving out any content!
Too bad nobody had JKR do that for Prisoner of Azkaban.
30 posted on
08/21/2007 12:24:05 PM PDT by
Antoninus
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To: Antoninus
Too bad nobody had JKR do that for Prisoner of Azkaban.I don't entirely agree. It's true that it goes on and on, and that the essential events could have been covered much more efficiently. However, I found plenty of the "filler" material entertaining, and I'm sure other readers enjoyed parts that didn't interest me.
36 posted on
08/21/2007 12:32:45 PM PDT by
Tax-chick
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