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but might be a bit slower in summer.
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Do not use footnotes or cite page numbers in your review.
A SAMPLE REVIEW HEADING:
Your Name
Your Address
Contemporary Literary Theory. Edited by G.
Douglas Atkins and Laura Morrow. Amherst: University of
Massachusetts Press, 1989. xiv + 249 pp. $40.00,
cloth; $12.95, paper.
(If the price of the book is not listed, please use the
abbreviation "Npl." as follows: xiv + 249 pp.
Npl. For non-university presses in unfamiliar cities
use the city and state as follows: Port Townsend,
Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 1994.)
A SAMPLE REVIEW ENDING:
| Your University or Your City and State |
Your Name
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