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		<title>More from Pete&#8217;s Mail Bag</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you&#8217;ve lost track, my dog Pete, who&#8217;s been dead lo these last two years, has been asked to apply to a for-profit institution of higher learning and to buy a new car at Miller Chrysler Dodge Jeep. And yesterday, the good people of Mealey&#8217;s Furniture kindly wrote to inquire about Pete&#8217;s luck: The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcschuster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6408096&amp;post=1667&amp;subd=marcschuster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ask an English Teacher: Good or Well?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Schuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If someone asks how I am, should I say I&#8217;m good or I&#8217;m well? The answer depends on whether the person who asked really cares how you&#8217;re doing. If they&#8217;re only asking to be polite, the correct answer is, &#8220;Fine, thanks!&#8221; But if they really want to know, the correct answer is probably closer to, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcschuster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6408096&amp;post=1626&amp;subd=marcschuster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Lyrical Revelation 34 Years in the Making</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Schuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1978. I&#8217;m five years old, and I swear the couplet goes &#8220;Spins a web, any size./Can&#8217;t you see? Just like eyes!&#8221; Did it make sense? No. But it was close enough for jazz &#8212; and the theme from Spider-man was one heck of a jazzy tune. &#160; 2012. I&#8217;m significantly older. I hear the Ramones [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcschuster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6408096&amp;post=1493&amp;subd=marcschuster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ask an English Teacher: &#8220;Like&#8221; vs. &#8220;Not Unlike&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Schuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A regular reader of this blog recently wrote with the following quandary: Q: It drives me crazy when I hear someone say “It’s not dissimilar to…” or “It’s not unlike&#8230;”  THEN IT’S SIMILAR OR IT’S LIKE, YOU IDIOT! Please explain this language phenomenon to me. A: What we&#8217;re dealing with here is a matter of degree. To say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcschuster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6408096&amp;post=1511&amp;subd=marcschuster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Writing in Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I talked a bit about the value of what I call active reading. One of the things I mentioned was that readers &#8212; particularly students of literature &#8212; shouldn&#8217;t be afraid to write in their books (assuming, of course, they&#8217;re not library books). In response, a couple of people, both on my blog [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcschuster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6408096&amp;post=1635&amp;subd=marcschuster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Book in My Head: Mike Doughty on The Book of Drugs</title>
		<link>http://marcschuster.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/a-book-in-my-head-mike-doughty-on-the-book-of-drugs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Schuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["It wasn't so much wanting to write a book as realizing I had a book to write."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcschuster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6408096&amp;post=1653&amp;subd=marcschuster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing About Literature (Pt. 3: Support)</title>
		<link>http://marcschuster.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/one-way-to-write-about-literature-pt-3-support/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Schuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The main thing to remember when you’re writing a paper for a literature course is that you’re not just letting your professor know that you did the reading. Rather, you’re making a point about the text.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcschuster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6408096&amp;post=1555&amp;subd=marcschuster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing About Literature (Pt. 2: Thesis)</title>
		<link>http://marcschuster.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/one-way-to-write-about-literature-pt-2-developing-a-thesis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Schuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While you will certainly include a little bit of summary in your paper, your main job is to make a point about the text.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcschuster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6408096&amp;post=1549&amp;subd=marcschuster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing About Literature (Pt. 1: Reading)</title>
		<link>http://marcschuster.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/one-way-to-write-about-literature-pt-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Schuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The kind of reading you do in a literature course is most likely different from reading that you do for pleasure.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcschuster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6408096&amp;post=1547&amp;subd=marcschuster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing About Literature</title>
		<link>http://marcschuster.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/writing-about-literature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Schuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing I've noticed over the years is that some of the students in my literature courses have trouble making the transition from writing about more "general" topics in composition courses to writing about literature in my American and Contemporary Literature courses.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcschuster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6408096&amp;post=1552&amp;subd=marcschuster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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