Count your ideas. Be careful not to have too many. | And if a student dares to have four ideas, instead of three? . . . Toss one out. Only three ideas allowed. I’ve seen students fail assignments because they had the wrong numbers. | And they can’t stop writing that way. Many have told…
“Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.” (The Australian)“Ladies and gentlemen — we got him.” (Time) “Ladies and gentlemen: we got him.” (Washington Times) “Ladies and gentlemen… we got him.” (ic Wales) —Ladies and gentlemen [?] we got him. (Google News) Interesting how the various news agencies are punctuating this catchphrase, which will probably soon be as…
Mike says that the five-paragraph format is a shortcut, and “short-cuts — whether a five-paragraph theme or a preemptive military strike — seldom offer lasting solutions.” Amanda says that “[w]hat it generates is more a list than an essay.” I agree with what Amanda says when she argues (implicitly) that it’s not so much the…