| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - And to be sure, it is damn good advice, easier to offer than to accept, and students prove time and again that telling about or describing characters, thoughts, and themes rather than showing through action is the quickest path to dead-eyed and amateurish prose.I do not regret repeating show-don't-tell to students that need to hear it, but I am beginning to regret my own internalization of that rule
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