Emulation In The Great Gatsby By Saul Bellow

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Emulation is defined as striving to equal or excel a task or ability, in other words, to copy, imitate or mirror a skill . When Saul Bellow states his quote about this term, he is referring to a level that all readers should reach when researching for a paper. Like Nadell mentioned in the first chapter, “Each essay is the result of hours of work-hours of thinking, writing, rethinking, and revising” (8). Readers should show the same willingness to work with the selections, strictly speaking, read sources and articles carefully and thoughtfully. A writer should excel at their abilities as a reader because in order to write a paper and support their thoughts and points in their work, the writer needs to read credible information.

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