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Summary of Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

In this book summary, a student shares Barbara Ehrenreich’s experiences in her book Nickel and Dimed. The student discusses what Ehrenreich learns about the struggles low-wage workers faced even after the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.
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Angela's feedback:

"It is clear that you’ve read the book, and your summary so far makes sense. However, some of your paragraphs run long, which can make it difficult for the reader to stay engaged with the content. Consider doing some revision to keep all paragraphs about three-quarters of a page long (double-spaced). When writing a date with the year or writing a location with the city and state, a comma should appear before and after the year or state (e.g., “in Key West, Florida, because of”). Single quotation marks should be nested in double quotation marks when you have quoted material within a quote. In a statement that ends with a parenthetical citation, the period should go after the citation itself, not both before the closing quotation mark and after the citation. Meanwhile, terms working as a compound modifier preceding a noun (e.g., “low-wage workers”) should be consistently hyphenated. Your paper would look neater overall if you also consistently indented the first line of each paragraph by half an inch. There’s a word choice problem with your use of “laminate” and a typo with the use of “to” instead of “too.”"

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