Gender Biased Language
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6 pages in length. This paper reviews three articles on the title subject and analyzes each article. There are people who use language that would be considered biased in use. The question that is raised is this: Is the language a cause of the bias or is the bias a cause of the language used? Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: JGAlingu.wps

A Review of an Assessment of Whole Language Curriculum
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A 5 page review of a 1996 study published in the Journal of Educational Research assessing the successes and failures of whole language programs in several targeted school districts. A critique of the study and its conclusion is provided. The published study is attached to the critique. No other sources are cited.
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Lexical Study of Allomorphs and Conditions Surrounding Use
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Allomorphy is the group of suffixes and prefixes and other affixes to a word that change the meaning or application of the root word or root stem. In other words, an allomorph accomplishes a transformation from one word to another. The new word will have a different semantic use and quite possibly a different meaning, and often, both... Lexicon.... 9 Harvard style references. jvLexAlo.rtf
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"Character"/A Dictionary Perspective
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A 4 page essay that looks at 3 definitions for the word "character," which the writer then argues is who we think we are, who other people think we are, and what we think of other people. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: kh3dic.rtf