For the essay, her students go in armed with five fabulous facts, three historical moments, familiarity with two novels and a surefire writing formula.
Not that Eminem whips out a sheet of diagramed lyrics, but we do see someone else's, while another rhyme slinger surprisingly credits his sense of structure to the high school writing formula of introduction-body-conclusion.
Downstairs in a seminar room Richard Noble, a rare-book cataloger from Brown University, quoted a warning against writing formulas — as the descriptions, which are published in scholarly catalogs, are known — that were "hirsute with commas".
Leśniewski would enter the lecture room with a briefcase stuffed with papers, root around, find where he had got to and carry on, writing formulas and explaining how they were derived.
As a predictive strategy, writing formulas are as likely to be as useful to would-be bestselling novelists as the advice in today's astrology column is in making good decisions.
Create a little quiz by writing formulas and checking it.
In A Beautiful Mind (2001), for instance, Russell Crowe, playing troubled maths star John Forbes Nash Jr, writes formulae on his dorm window.
The English scientist Roger Bacon wrote formulas for black powder about 1248 in his Epistola.
Others wrote formulas on their forearms or on the insides of water bottles.
Ms. Cash, like her father, doesn't write formula country songs.
