Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve
Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve

Author: Ben Blatt

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1501105388

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"Blatt brings big data to the literary canon, exploring the wealth of fun findings that remain hidden in the works of the world's greatest writers. He assembles a database of thousands of books and hundreds of millions of words, and starts asking the questions that have intrigued curious word nerds and book lovers for generations: What are our favorite authors' favorite words? Do men and women write differently? Are bestsellers getting dumber over time? Which bestselling writer uses the most clichaes? What makes a great opening sentence? How can we judge a book by its cover? And which writerly advice is worth following or ignoring?"--Amazon.com.

Teaching Readers of English
Teaching Readers of English

Author: John Hedgcock

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-09-10

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 1135837708

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A comprehensive manual for pre- and in-service ESL and EFL educators, this frontline text balances insights from current reading theory and research with highly practical, field-tested strategies for teaching and assessing L2 reading in secondary and post-secondary contexts. Teaching Readers of English: provides a through yet accessible survey of L2 reading theory and research addresses the unique cognitive and socioeducational challenges encountered by L2 readers covers the features of L2 texts that teachers of reading must understand acquaints readers with methods for designing reading courses, selecting curricular materials, and planning instruction explores the essential role of systematic vocabulary development in teaching L2 literacy includes practical methods for assessing L2 students’ proficiency, achievement, and progress in the classroom. Pedagogical features in each chapter include questions for reflection, further reading and resources, reflection and review questions, and application activities.

Smart Language
Smart Language

Author: William H. DuBay

Publisher: Booksurge Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781419654398

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The purpose of this book is to introduce the research on readability, defined here as reading ease. The first part of the book covers how people read. A series of national literacy surveys show that the average person in the U.S. and most other countries are adults of limited reading skills. For example, the average adult in the U.S. reads at the 9th-grade level, with nearly half reading below that level. The second part of this work covers the efforts made to match texts with readers. The research shows that more readable texts increase comprehension, retention, reading speed, and persistence. Other studies show how factors in both the reader and the text contribute to reading ease. Finally, the work follows the development of the readability formulas and the controversies that surrounded them. George Klare's Readability Ranking Test is appended. An index is included. (Contains 14 figures and 9 tables.).

The Elements of Style
The Elements of Style

Author: William Strunk Jr.

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing

Published: 2023-10-01

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 1398833916

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First published in 1918, William Strunk Jr.'s The Elements of Style is a guide to writing in American English. The boolk outlines eight "elementary rules of usage", ten "elementary principles of composition", "a few matters of form", a list of 49 "words and expressions commonly misused", and a list of 57 "words often misspelled". A later edition, enhanced by E B White, was named by Time magazine in 2011 as one of the 100 best and most influential books written in English since 1923.

MOBY DICK (Modern Classics Series)
MOBY DICK (Modern Classics Series)

Author: Herman Melville

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2023-12-11

Total Pages: 687

ISBN-13:

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This carefully crafted ebook: "MOBY DICK (Modern Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville: first published in 1851, considered to be one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature, one of the great epics in all of literature. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab has one purpose on this voyage: to seek out Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg, which now drives Ahab to take revenge...

Teaching Patients with Low Literacy Skills
Teaching Patients with Low Literacy Skills

Author: Cecilia Conrath Doak

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780397551613

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This practical text guides the reader in developing the necessary tools for teaching those patients with limited literacy skills. Nurses will learn proven strategies for evaluating comprehension and teaching patients using written materials, tapes, video, computer aided instruction, visuals, and graphics. An abundance of case studies helps to demonstrate the application of teaching/learning theory to actual practice. Readers will also explore literacy issues in health care as well as the cultural impact on comprehension.