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Getting Writing Done

What You Read Influences How You Write

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2024

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I once regularly performed a party trick for my students. After they sent me a one-page assignment, I would tell them what they regularly read. “You read The Economist and The Wall Street Journal compulsively, cover to cover, every day,” I told a commercial banker, who was astonished, like I’d just accurately guessed his maternal grandmother’s maiden name. “The last time you read a book was in tenth grade,” I told a student finishing an MS in Entrepreneurship, who did a double-take before he confessed, “How’d you know?”

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Writing for the Reader's Brain
A Science-Based Guide
, pp. 50 - 51
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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