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Catholic School Book Company, 1887
This textbook is a second reader for Catholic children. The contents include age-appropriate stories and passages on the importance of emphasis, consonant sounds, marked letters, and punctuation marks. A list of Roman and Arabic numbers is also included.
Descriptors: Catholics, Children, Phonemes, Numbers
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Cruttenden, Alan – Visible Language, 1991
Explores one aspect of the relationship between intonation and punctuation. Outlines the historical development of punctuation, and compares twentieth-century punctuation rules with what is known about the division of connected speech into intonation-groups. Suggests that, where syntactic prescription and intonational usage conflict, a return to…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Higher Education, Intonation, Listening Comprehension
Bowers, Bradley R. – 1994
In her much-quoted statement of principles "A Room of One's Own," Virginia Woolf wishes for "a woman's sentence." In that essay, she doubts that a woman can use the same sentence as a man to write literature, because "the weight, the pace, the stride of a man's mind are too unlike her own for her to lift anything…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Females, Feminism, Higher Education
George, D'Ann Pletcher – 1995
It is a commonly held assumption that Harvard-trained rhetoricians during the late 19th and early 20th centuries were concerned mainly with superficial mechanical correction, and, further, that they dissociated student writing from any meaningful context and contributed to the division between composition and literature. Howard James Savage was…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Change