My address is:
Dr. Barbara Stanford
Teacher Education
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
2801 South University
Little Rock, AR 72204.
----- Original Message -----
From: marshall myers <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 9:31 am
Subject: Re: spelling/memorizing
> Barbara,
>
> Thanks for volunteering to review THINKING THROUGH GRAMMAR.
>
> The review would be due on August 1, 2004. Is that acceptable to you?
>
> If so, let me know your address, and I'll send you my copy.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Marshall
>
> Barbara Stanford wrote:
>
> >I would be interested in reviewing it. When is it due?
> >
> >Barbara Stanford
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: marshall myers <[log in to unmask]>
> >Date: Monday, June 14, 2004 3:51 pm
> >Subject: Re: spelling/memorizing
> >
> >
> >
> >>Grammar Mavens:
> >>
> >>I am the book review editor for SYNTAX IN THE SCHOOLS in need of a
> >>bookreviewer.
> >>
> >>I need someone with expertise in grammar teaching in the middle
> >>and high
> >>school to review a book in hopes of publishing it in SYNTAX IN THE
> >>SCHOOLS.
> >>Whoever must be able to meet deadlines and be amenable to
> constructive>>criticism of the review itself.
> >>
> >>The book to be reviewed is THINKING THROUGH GRAMMAR: A PROTOTYPE
> >>CONSTRUCTION COURSE by Whimbey, Linden, and Frieswyk.
> >>
> >>Book reviews for SYNTAX IN THE SCHOOLS usually run 2-4 double-spaced
> >>pages and are recognized by many departments as some sort of
> >>publication(an article it ain't, but it does carry some weight in
> >>some departments).
> >>
> >>I'll loan the reviewer a copy of the book.
> >>
> >>I'll take the first person out there who can abide by these
> >>conditions.
> >>Best wishes,
> >>
> >>Marshall Myers
> >>Department of English
> >>Eastern Kentucky University
> >>Richmond, KY 40475
> >>859-625-9235
> >>[log in to unmask]
> >>Spruiell, William C wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I've had some luck with tricks like this in my college classes, but
> >>>made the mistake once of referring to them formally as mnemonic
> >>>devices. At the end of the semester, I got a comment from one
> >>>
> >>>
> >>student> saying that the "demonic devices" were quite helpful (if
> >>I had gotten
> >>
> >>
> >>>that from an older Unix programmer, I would have thought it was
> >>>
> >>>
> >>a pun,
> >>
> >>
> >>>but ....).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Bill Spruiell
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar
> >>>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Don Stewart
> >>>Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 9:23 PM
> >>>To: [log in to unmask]
> >>>Subject: spelling/memorizing
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>I learned the technique of capitalizing the difficult area of a
> >>>
> >>>
> >>spelling> word to make it more memorable, and also, if possible,
> >>making up a little
> >>
> >>
> >>>story to go with it. Thus, principLE/ruLE; cEmEtEry, with a
> >>>
> >>>
> >>story about
> >>
> >>
> >>>taking a shortcut through the graveyard and someone jumps out
> at you
> >>>and you
> >>>say "EEEEEE!"
> >>>
> >>>My all-time hardest word used to be "occurrence." I was telling
> >>>
> >>>
> >>one of my
> >>
> >>
> >>>seventh-grade classes about the system, but I told them I just
> >>>
> >>>
> >>could not
> >>
> >>
> >>>figure out a way to do it with this word. Then one of the
> >>>
> >>>
> >>students said,
> >>
> >>
> >>>"Well, an ocCURRENce is like a CURRENt event." I've never
> >>>
> >>>
> >>misspelled it
> >>
> >>
> >>>since!
> >>>
> >>>This technique, by the way, comes from "The Memory Book," by Harry
> >>>Lorraine
> >>>and Jerry West (yes, THE Jerry West). It's a fabulous system.
> >>>
> >>>Don Stewart
> >>>
> >>>--
> >>>Keeper of the memory and method of Dr. Francis Christensen.
> >>>WriteforCollege.com
> >>>The Stewart English Program (epsbooks.com)
> >>>
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