AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: what a teacher and a student have to say about writing a persuasive essay. DANNY SHEFFIELD: My name is Danny Sheffield and I teach in Bentonville, Arkansas, at Northwest Arkansas Community College. AA:

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词汇大师-- Communicating by Hand

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- the language of non-verbal communication. Two writers, Melissa Wagner and Nancy Armstrong, have put together a book of one-hundred-eight gestures and their various, and sometime

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词汇大师-- A Busy Shopping Day for Sure

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: With the national observance of Thanksgiving Day coming up this Thursday, we turn to a linguistic mystery about the day after, which traditionally opens the Christmas holiday shopping season in America

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词汇大师-- With E-mail, a Few More Keyboard Taps

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: e-mail etiquette. RS: Wendi Eldh [pron. ell'd] conducts business training programs. One of them focuses on helping clients communicate by e-mail, which is harder than you might th

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词汇大师-- Terms That Janus Would Have Loved

I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: two-faced words, also known as Janus words after the Roman god with two faces looking in opposite directions or contronyms. RS:We are talking about a word that has developed two oppos

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词汇大师-- the Most Important Part of Being Cherokee

In 1838, the Cherokee Indians were forced to give up their land in the eastern United States and migrate to what is now Oklahoma. Over 4,000 died on the journey known as the Trail of Tears, but some Cherokee remained behind, hidden in the mountains o

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词汇大师-- What Terms Annoy You in Conversation

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: We talk about a recent poll taken to find out which words or phrases annoy Americans most in conversation. Here were the five choices. RS: Whatever, anyway, you know, it is what i

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词汇大师-- Which Makes the Better Writer

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: we talk with an expert on children and handwriting. RS: Virginia Berninger is an educational psychology professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. She tells us about a

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词汇大师-- Remembering William Safire

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and this week on WORDMASTER: We remember William Safire, who died Sunday of pancreatic cancer at the age of 79. RS: Readers of the New York Times knew him not only from his years as a conservative political co

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词汇大师-- 'How Are Yinz Doin?' Pittsburghers Ask

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: we discuss a local dialect spoken in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the host city for this week's Group of 20 economic summit. That's Rosanne's hometown, and she went back in 2000 to t

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词汇大师-- To Make a Long Story Short

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: our guest is Emily Kissner, a schoolteacher in Pennsylvania and author of a book called Summarizing, Paraphrasing and Retelling. EMILY KISSNER: When you summarize, you need to first choose what's impor

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词汇大师-- A Classic Children's Story

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: Our theme is food, or more precisely, slang having to do with food. So we're dusting off a vintage WORDMASTER: a segment we did with our old friend, David Burke, better known as S

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词汇大师-- Health Advice for Couples

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: how the words that couples use when they fight could affect their health. RS: In a new study, forty-two married couples made two overnight visits to a laboratory to discuss their

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词汇大师-- Advice Not 'Advices'

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: A listener, Akbar Gandi in Iran, is asking for an explanation of countable and uncountable nouns and the difference between a name and a noun. RS: English teacher Lida Baker has t

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词汇大师-- Forget the Gunplay

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: palindromes aplenty! RS: A palindrome is something that reads the same backwards or forwards. Palindromes make us think of Janus, the Roman god with one face looking forward, anot

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词汇大师-- How to Help Your Baby Learn to Talk?

AA: I'm Avi Arditti, Rosanne Skirble is away. This week on WORDMASTER: baby talk. (MOVIE SOUND) The movie Babies is now showing in theaters in the United States. It's a documentary that follows four infants through their first year. Two of the famili

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词汇大师-- Our Brains Don't Always Know

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: Pronouns and why they're harder for your brain to understand than you might think. Pronouns are words like he, she, it, we, you, they and lots more. RS: They act as shortcuts so w

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词汇大师-- Teaching Students the Words to ...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: Helping young people learn to talk, and think, about science. RS: Catherine Snow is an education professor at Harvard University and also works with a group called the Strategic E

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词汇大师-- An Editorialist's Opinion

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: Another voice from the recent Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages convention in Boston. Patricia Kelvin has a doctorate in the teaching of writing. She was an award-winning editorial wri

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词汇大师-- English Teaching Is Music

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: we meet a newly trained English language teacher from Los Angeles. Curt Burich [BYUR-ick] was at the recent Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages convention in Boston to interview for jobs

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