The Future of Thinking - Rhetoric and Liberal Arts Teaching
Learning to think is a complex process made up of reading, writing listening, speaking and remembering textual materials. The aim of this topical book is to encourage practical educational reform in the Humanities by taking the emphasis away from the reception of texts to their production. Adapting rhetorical teaching methods, the authors encourage students to participate in the activities of thinking giving them short written and verbal exercises to develop conceptual competences and linguistics skills.
The Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) is a computer-based standardized examination for prospective medical students in the United States and Canada. It is designed to assess problem solving, critical thinking, written analysis, and writing skills in addition to knowledge of scientific concepts and principles. The Verbal Reasoning section of the MCAT is designed to see how well you can comprehend, evaluate, and apply information that you read.
Adjectives and Adverbs: Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse
In this volume leading researchers present new work on the semantics and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs, and their interfaces with syntax. Its concerns include the semantics of gradability; the relationship between adjectival scales and verbal aspect; the relationship between meaning and the positions of adjectives and adverbs in nominal and verbal projections; and the fine-grained semantics of different subclasses of adverbs and adverbs.
Verbal Behavior is a 1957 book by psychologist B. F. Skinner, in which he analyzes human behavior, encompassing what is traditionally called language, linguistics, or speech. For Skinner, verbal behavior is simply behavior subject to the same controlling variables as any other operant behavior, although Skinner differentiates between verbal behavior which is mediated by other people, and that which is mediated by the natural world.
Eighty-four word games: crossword puzzles, match-the-name-with-the-animals, fill-in-the-blanks, search-a-word and other intriguing activities that introduce youngsters to animals of land, sea and air. Excellent tool for strengthening cognitive and verbal skills. Includes illustrations of 170 animals and solutions.
