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
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> 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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