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You are going to read an article in which four people discuss keeping a diary. For questions 1-10, choose from the people (A-D). The people may be chosen more than once.
Dear Diary
Four people discuss the value of keeping a diary
Adaeze Nwosu, novelist
I have kept a diary since I was eleven, and for most of that time it has been a deeply unliterary document: lists, complaints, the weather. I mention this because people often assume that a writer's diary must be a kind of rehearsal for the novels, a place where sentences are polished before being put to work. Mine has never been that. If anything, it is where I go to escape from the pressure to write well. I have occasionally plundered it for details, the exact colour of a hospital corridor, say, or what someone wore at a funeral, and I am grateful for those. But the real value, I think, is that it has taught me how unreliable my memory is. Events I would have sworn happened one way are recorded, in my own hand, quite differently.
Which person stopped keeping a diary because of an embarrassing incident?
Which person warns that writing a diary every day can make worries seem more serious?
Which person has learnt from their diary that their recollection of events is not to be trusted?
Which person is concerned that records being made today may not survive?
Which person says that their diary offers relief from the demands of their profession?
Which person identifies the kind of diary-writer most likely to benefit?
Which person says that certain records are valuable for what they show together rather than one by one?
Which person admits that some advice turned out to be right, but for a different reason?
Which person contrasts the conditions of research studies with the way people usually keep diaries?
Which person corrects a common belief about what their diary is for?
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