These signs of students approaching campus made me think about the amount of writing they are about to engage in—writing is, after all, an important way to learn and a key way to demonstrate what one has learned. Students will write impromptu responses for a given class, more developed essays on assigned topics and research papers resulting from long-term projects. This is especially true of high-school seniors and first-year college students. I write to alert you of this basic fact and to present the glad tidings of an easy way for you to become well prepared for these projects, starting right now, long before they are even assigned.
His memoir illustrates an important lesson for the rest of us and especially for other memoirists: You are not the most important character in your life story—it is the other people in your life who give it meaning and who make it interesting. His best characters are the people who touched his life, who abetted his schemes and who helped him through difficulties. That is a great lesson to be mindful of as we carry on our lives, but it is also a powerful tool for memoirists figuring out how to make their stories more engaging.
The liberal media has recently uncovered the CIA Style Manual, and we are, frankly, in the gravest danger. A matter of national security—the threat of the serial comma—must end. Also known as the Oxford comma, this insidious misleader—like the Cambridge Five—can serve no good role influencing Agency dispatches. Although the Company prudently favors semi-colons, it recklessly “endorses” the serial comma, and this will inevitably result in additional faulty intelligence.
