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Writing & Linguistics News, Georgia Southern University Mar 2019

Writing & Linguistics News, Georgia Southern University

Writing & Linguistics News (2012-2022)

  • Georgia Poetry Circuit welcomes Elena Karina Byrne on April 11

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Writing & Linguistics News, Georgia Southern University Feb 2019

Writing & Linguistics News, Georgia Southern University

Writing & Linguistics News (2012-2022)

  • Juliana Baggott reads in Savannah on March 7

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Books And The Big Screen: The Book Is Always Better, Sheri A. Brown, Samantha Ertenberg Sep 2018

Books And The Big Screen: The Book Is Always Better, Sheri A. Brown, Samantha Ertenberg

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

What happens when an English professor and a librarian share their love of books and reading? A campus book club is born. Many students associate reading with what happens in the classroom or studying towards a specific goal. They don’t see the power of reading for enjoyment, entertainment, and pleasure. Stephen Krushen, in The Power of Reading, defines free voluntary reading (FVR), as “reading because you want to: no book reports, no questions at the end of the chapter. In FVR you don’t have to finish the book if you don’t like it. FVR is the kind of reading …

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