Second part of a continued article; number'' refers to the singular or plural of words. (SK)

Urges professional writers to consider their audience, persona, and subject matter when preparing manuscripts for submission. (DD)

A satire about the pompous literary criticism instructors give beginning writers. (RB)

Word frequency books are compiled on the basis of common usage and aid language users to know which terms best communicate an idea. (Author)

Contains replies to George Steiner's After the book?'' (Same issue, p197-210) by John V. Brain, Norman S. Fiering, John Freeman, and Leland E. Warren. (RB)

Presents a series of four experiments which take the children along the same path that the development of written and oral language may have taken. (Author)

A report on an attempt to evaluate progress in improving written language in the elementary schools. (Author)

Presents a brief report of some comparative analyses of written language of primary school children of differing socio-economic levels. (Author)

Special issue devoted to teaching Level II French. (DS)

Presents examples of language pollution fostered by mass media which ignore distinctions in language and warns that this can weaken the general feeling for the nature of English. (MB)

Results of experiments (1) to assess the degree of agreement with which subjects identify paragraph boundaries in unindented prose passages, (2) to determine whether a significant proportion of the cues to paragraph structure are formal in nature, (3) to ascertain whether the identification of paragraphs in different kinds of prose differentially…

The article examines two topics important to educators working with learning disabled college writers: error patterns of college learning disabled, normal, and basic writers across different tasks and instructional approaches successful in improvng the written language skills of college learning disabled writers, such as sentence combining and…

Three lexical decision experiments tested the claim that lexical access is based on a word's basic orthographic syllabic structure (BOSS). No evidence was found that BOSS is a word's unique lexical access entry, and one experiment suggested that morphemic units are more likely to be access codes than purely orthographic units. (MSE)