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    Reading for Ethics in Literature

    Robert Hamill 15 Aug 201529 May 2022Leave a comment

    The Hunger Games, Frankenstein, and more.

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    Posting Approach

    robert.t.hamill 29 Mar 201529 May 2022Leave a comment

    Posting about politics, religion, economics or lifestyle using a more rounded posting approach can make the difference to your assertion's reception.

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    Technical Writing Course

    Robert Hamill 9 Dec 201429 May 2022Leave a comment

    "Letting Your Subconscious Work for You" instructions to read before the semester began.

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    Different Ways of Weighing the Same Short Story

    Robert Hamill 8 Oct 201329 May 20221 Comment

    What counts more to you - style or substance? Can a woman write a male lead as credibly as she writes a female lead? Can…

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    Patterns and Creative Work

    Robert Hamill 25 Sep 201329 May 2022Leave a comment

    Patterns are good to start creative work, but concrete details are needed to be understandable to others and to finish the creation. An example, I…

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    Nemesis
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    Nemesis

    Robert Hamill 3 Apr 201330 May 2022Leave a comment

    Because polio strikes mysteriously, most everyone formulates theories based on superstitions. Roth uses the capriciousness of the disease as an avenue to question God's role…

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    Two Methods of Thinking

    Robert Hamill 20 Feb 201317 Dec 20241 Comment

    Pattern-matching, like analogy, where we treat partial matches like exact fits. It's possible to make errors. It's possible to jump to a good answer without…

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    Writing Class

    Robert Hamill 24 Jun 201229 May 2022Leave a comment

    "Story" is the events in the narrative, while "plot" is the logical and emotional relationships between the events.

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    Word Smithing and Facts
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    Word Smithing and Facts

    Robert Hamill 13 Jun 201230 Mar 2024Leave a comment

    Backwoodsmen. The wordsmith converts them to villains or heroes, according to their goal for reader perception.

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    Short Story Reality

    Robert Hamill 27 Mar 201227 Oct 2023Leave a comment

    A question that pops up semi-regularly:

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