This paper advises poetry readers to get rid of the inhibitions that the search for conventional meaning creates, by invoking the tenet that "a poem must not mean but be." The paper presents and analyzes several poems, maintaining that good poetry is an honest presentation of real experience that rarely offers information about any short-term…

Almost every discussion of technical or scientific writing style mentions the passive voice as a stylistic choice to avoid. However, the passive voice does have legitimate uses in technical and scientific writing--the problem is to define the appropriate or effective uses and the inappropriate or ineffective ones. An examination of passive voice…

While editors have no way of encoding most of the features of the human voice, they are often able to use punctuation and other devices to give the impression of speech. While retaining many distinctive features of a personal voice is possible in writing, considerations of voice are inseparable from considerations of textual features and audience…

Antecedents of linguistic nonimmediacy were examined in a four-factor analysis of covariance with repeated measures design. Immediacy refers to the language of a message expressing a close relationship to the referent, while nonimmediacy suggests that the language expresses a more distant relationship. Subjects in the study were 118 college…

Student writers should be encouraged to move beyond a "jargon" or "public discourse" model of writing. This can be accomplished by capitalizing on the students' knack for imitation by turning it into public parody. After being divided into small panels of three, four, or five members, students are assigned a voice and topic and asked to develop a…

THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY COVERS THE FIELD OF READABILITY AND READING. THE SELECTED WORKS ARE ORGANIZED INTO NINE SECTIONS--(1) GENERAL REFERENCES ON READABILITY, (2) MEASURING OF READABILITY, (3) READABILITY AND SENTENCE STRUCTURE, (4) READABILITY AND VOCABULARY, (5) READABILITY AND LITERARY STYLE, (6) READABILITY IN SUBJECT AREA MATERIALS, (7)…

This volume of Persian language texts is designed to accompany the author's "Modern Persian Prose Literature" (Cambridge,1966), and contains representative passages from the works of the more important Iranian writers of the last 100 years. The selections, from 26 different sources, are intended to familiarize the foreign student with both the…

This document describes two experiments that tested male and female attitudes toward sex-typical language. In the first experiment, 119 undergraduate females were asked to read and evaluate one of two written passages where the linguistic features were manipulated to create male and female sex-typed versions. Participants were tested on their…

That the English language has changed greatly over the centuries is an accepted fact; the fact that the movement hasn't stopped should also be accepted. Examples of analogic changes which are taking place in syntax and morphology illustrate the state of flux of English. However, many teachers of English still believe that it is their duty to guard…

A study was conducted to find whether race, socio-economic status (SES) and language cues of speakers modify the ratings of white experienced teachers. Subjects were 250 white male and female experienced teachers whose responses were recorded on a semantic differential designed to assess teacher expectancies on two concepts: speaker and speaker's…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether persons identified as having either a low or a high degree of apprehension toward writing encode information differently. Behavioral patterns similar to those exhibited by persons who are apprehensive about speech were investigated. Results of a study of 19 high-apprehensive and 21…

Journals that expound the socialist views of the political left in the United States are reviewed, including "The Nation,""Working Papers for a New Society," and "Dissent." The purposes, issues and concerns, and political and ideological character of these journals are discussed. (JMD)

Argues that literature should have a place in the language learning process. Since colloquial and literary styles overlap, it is felt that the two styles should not remain separated in actual life. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)