Workbook to Accompany the Second Edition of Donald M. Ayers's English Words from Latin and Greek Elements.

Dettmer, Helena and Marcia Lindgren:

ISBN 10: 0816523185 / ISBN 13: 9780816523184

Published by Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2005

About this Item

XII, 269 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Overall very good and clean. - Helena Dettmer is a Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Iowa. Before joining the faculty there, she obtained a B.A. degree with honors in Classics at Indiana University and earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Michigan. She served as President of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in 1996-97. Dettmer served as chair of the Department of Classics from 1993 to 2001, as interim chair of the Department of French and Italian from 1998 to 1999, as founding Director of the Division of Interdisciplinary Programs from 2001 to 2005, and currently is serving as Associate Dean of Academic Programs and Services in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She is the author of Love by the Numbers: Form and Meaning in the Poetry of Catullus (1997) and Horace: A Study in Structure (1983). - Marcia Lindgren earned a baccalaureate degree with honors from Southern Connecticut State University. She went on to graduate study in Classics at the University of Iowa, where she received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. In addition to teaching at Iowa, she served for ten years as an assistant to the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She is currently an adjunct faculty member in the University of Iowa Department of Classics, where she also directs the Latin program. ISBN 9780816523184 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 743.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Workbook to Accompany the Second Edition of Donald M. Ayers's English Words from Latin and Greek Elements.
• Publisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816523185
• ISBN 13: 9780816523184
• Binding: Original softcover.
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Weight: 743 grams
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Synopsis

For more than forty years, English Words from Latin and Greek Elements, by Donald M. Ayers, has shown thousands of students the way to a broader vocabulary by teaching them to recognize the classical roots found in many English words. When the second edition of that text appeared in 1986, it was joined by a workbook that has proven exceptionally popular in reinforcing those vocabulary skills. Each lesson in the Workbook complements the text with a variety of exercises: short-answer, matching, multiple choice, word analysis, fill-in-the-blank, and true-false.

The Workbook has now been revised to make it more relevant and useful. It features a new dictionary exercise and word analysis exercises, the replacement of true-false exercises that have caused the most difficulty for students, and the elimination of archaic words and other items that have become dated. The authors have also improved the clarity of the instructions for individual exercises, in some cases adding notes or providing sample answers. As part of the revised front matter, there is a new introduction written just for students to help them get the most out of the workbook. English Words and the Workbook have met with unqualified success in English and Classics courses at both the advanced secondary and college levels. This revision of the Workbook helps to ensure the continuing relevance of the roots approach to vocabulary building for tomorrow’s students.

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For more than forty years, "English Words from Latin and Greek Elements," by Donald M. Ayers, has shown thousands of students the way to a broader vocabulary by teaching them to recognize the classical roots found in many English words. When the second edition of that text appeared in 1986, it was joined by a workbook that has proven exceptionally popular in reinforcing those vocabulary skills. Each lesson in the Workbook complements the text with a variety of exercises: short-answer, matching, multiple choice, word analysis, fill-in-the-blank, and true-false. The Workbook has now been revised to make it more relevant and useful. It features a new dictionary exercise and word analysis exercises, the replacement of true-false exercises that have caused the most difficulty for students, and the elimination of archaic words and other items that have become dated. The authors have also improved the clarity of the instructions for individual exercises, in some cases adding notes or providing sample answers. As part of the revised front matter, there is a new introduction written just for students to help them get the most out of the workbook. "English Words "and the "Workbook" have met with unqualified success in English and Classics courses at both the advanced secondary and college levels. This revision of the Workbook helps to ensure the continuing relevance of the roots approach to vocabulary building for tomorrowas students.