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ERRR #076. Nathaniel Swain on Writing to Learn

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The Writing Revolution - Narrative Through Story Grammar

Polyp totem is one of the lesser known rhetorical tricks. It involves repeated use of one word as different parts of speech or in different grammatical forms. Story grammar comes from decades old research into how children tell stories and retell them. All stories need to have a character or at least one setting and then problem.

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