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Gaining
Word Power
7th Edition
Dorothy Rubin, The College of New Jersey
0-321-27352-4
Paperback
384 pages
2006
Brief Description
Gaining Word Power helps college students build and retain better vocabularies and become more effective strategic readers.
Based on more than thirty years of the author's teaching experience, this comprehensive vocabulary book generates a basic college-level vocabulary quickly, effectively and pleasurably. It incorporates a number of proven vocabulary-building approaches that are grounded in sound learning theory. In each self-contained lesson, words are presented on graduated levels of difficulty, followed by challenging exercises and writing activities and reinforced by immediate access to solutions. This enables students to progress at their own pace and evaluate their progress.
Although this text has a distinct pedagogical structure, a variety of practices, crossword puzzles, writing exercises, analogy activities and numerous cartoons throughout challenge students to learn using a variety of strategies while continuously emphasizing the reading-writing connection.
Features
- Vocabulary words for each lesson are presented in the context of a story to stimulate student interest.
- Additional practice sets at the end of each chapter assist students who want extra help as well as those who are ready to tackle more difficult words.
- Words derived less obviously from combining forms are presented to help students build new words and to decipher unfamiliar ones.
- End-of-chapter analogies and exercises enable students to use chapter vocabulary to develop higher-order thinking skills.
- The end-of-chapter section, “Gaining Word Power on the Internet,” gives students practice working with the Internet.
- End-of-the-chapter riddles that encourage students to think analytically about the vocabulary words presented. This “Fun with Words” feature will help students retain the words they have learned
- Revised and updated readings and exercises. Many readings and exercises have been updated and revised to include issues that are relevant to college students such as sports, college life, jobs, and money matters.
- Technology Advantage–Vocabulary Web site. Each chapter refers students to the Vocabulary Web site (www.ablongman.com/vocabulary) for additional exercises.
New To This Edition
Thoroughly updated list of vocabulary words. as well as different puzzles and cartoons engage students and help them retain lessons from each chapter.
Extensive reorganization of the text’s contents: chapters, sections and exercises, suit the students’ learning capabilities by fluidly progressing based on different levels.
Different puzzles and new cartoons engage students in a variety of methods including visual stimulation help retain lessons from each chapter.
Contents
Introduction to Gaining Word Power.
The Importance of Vocabulary Growth
Organization of the Text
How Lessons are Presented
End of Chapter Ctivities
Cartoon Practices and Fun with Cartoons
Fun with Words
How Words are Presented
Special Notes
Extra Word Power
Understanding Analogies
Pronunciation Key
Understanding the Term Over-learning
Suggestions on How to Study Vocabulary
The Dictionary
I. VOCABULARY DERIVED PRIMARILY FROM CONTEXT CLUES.
2. Lessons 1-3 College Life.
3. Lessons 4-6 Jim’s Dilemma.
4. Lessons 7-9 Jim’s Dilemma Continues.
II. VOCABULARY DERIVED FROM COMBINING FORMS
AND CONTEXT CLUES.
5. Lessons 10-12.
6. Lessons 13-15.
7. Lessons 16-18.
8. Lessons 19-21.
9. Lessons 22-24.
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