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A Course on Words (Paperback, New edition)
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A Course on Words (Paperback, New edition)
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A great many students enter an etymology course with only one goal
- to learn new words with the hope that they will be more
successful in classwork, in standardized exams, or in a variety of
work-related situations. In A Course on Words students will indeed
learn new words, but, more important, they will gain an
understanding of how words are built and how they can use this
information to analyze new words that they will encounter outside
the classroom. They will spend most of the time learning elements
of words that will enable them to determine the meanings of many
new words in the future. As one student put it, this book seems to
"sensitize us to words and get us to think about words." The book
is unusual in that it offers both programmed and nonprogrammed
material. Each type of material is designed to provide students
with the maximum amount of involvement and practice. The students
do not simply read definitions of words, as is the case with some
courses. Rather, they engage in many different activities; not only
defining words but analyzing and build ing them, and learning to
use context to derive meaning. The programmed approach enables
students to do the work on their own and receive immediate checks
of their answers. Classroom time, therefore, is free for review,
reinforcement of programmed activities, work on the non programmed
material, and attention to the needs of individual students. The
book also includes at the end a set of Supplementary Exercises for
each unit. The nonprogrammed materials include "Review Exercises,"
"Words of Interesting Origin," "Easily Confused Words," and "Latin
Phrases." These provide practice in concepts learned in the unit
and an opportunity to explore a wide variety of topics, such as
eponymous words and the literal meanings of Latin expressions used
in English.
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