Word power made easy
Subtitle: the complete three-week vocabulary builder
Series: Permabook, M-5042
Publisher: Permabooks of Canada
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Montréal
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 412
Subjects: Anglais (Langue) -- Glossaires, vocabulaires, etc
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HOW TO TEST
YOUR PRESENT VOCABULARY
If you are the average adult, your vocabulary is barely one-and-one-half times as large as that of a child of ten.
And you know only one fourth as many words as the average college sophomore.
But that's the least of it—
What is infinitely more significant is that you are now increasing your vocabulary at no more than one one hundredth your rate when you were in the lower grades of elementary school
These accusations may sound insulting—but they are not intended to be. They are only an attempt to get you to face the facts about vocabulary development that educational testing has turned up in recent years.
Let us examine some of these facts.
According to a typical investigation by Professor Robert H. Seashore, chairman of the Department of Psychology of Northwestern University, the average child of ten knows the meanings of 34,300 different terms, and since his sixth year has been learning new words at the rate of 5000 a year.
The results of a similar investigation, conducted by Columbia University Professor George W. Hartmann among the students of the Alabama Institute of Technology, show that the average college sophomore has a vocabulary of approximately two hundred thousand words.
How do these figures compare with your own? I have obtained data on adult vocabularies by testing hundreds of students in the Adult Education Program of the City College of New York. These data show:...
Description: ARE YOU
AT A LOSS FOR WORDS?
Ask yourself these questions:
■   DO YOU ALWAYS USE THE PROPER WORD?
■   DO YOU KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE IT?
■   DO YOU KNOW HOW TO AVOID ILLITERATE EXPRESSIONS?
■   DO YOU SPEAK EASILY
AND WITHOUT EMBARRASSMENT?
Word power means success. Tests have proven again and again that people who do not possess large vocabularies are the ones who fail in today's competitive world. Modern life demands verbal knowledge. The person who can say what he means comes out on top in business, in school and in his personal affairs.
WORD POWER MADE EASY will help you to achieve a fluent, powerful and effective vocabulary in three weeks. Utilizing the latest methods of research, it is simple, easy and entertaining to use. Now you can own this new edition of this authoritative book for an exceptionally low price.
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