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Title: 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary by Wilfred John Funk, Norman Lewis ISBN: 0-671-74349-X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 15 March, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent resource!
Comment: This book is an excellent resource for anyone hoping to expand his or her vocabulary. I suppose, as the others below me have said, that the title of this classic book is a bit misleading. Yes, it's true-- you can't learn over two hundred words in "30 days." But whether you can or not does not diminish the fact that this book really does succeed in its aims, and that is to help expand your knowledge and use of words. This book helped fill in the gaps in my own vocabulary, and for that I will be forever grateful to it. I can't recommend it enough.
Rating: 4
Summary: It will take you more than 30 days to build a big vocabulary
Comment: While this book is very helpful in building a more powerful vocabulary, a more appropriate title would be "45 days to a more powerful vocabulary in just 60 minutes a day!" Some lessons must be repeated if you want to really know some of the words. There are no really ground breaking vocabulary memorization techniques in this book either. However, it does a great job of organizing certain vocabulary terms. If you can spare an hour a day for 45 days, this books can be a great help!
Rating: 5
Summary: How To Double Your Vocabulary, but not in 30 Days
Comment: Despite advertising hype - 30 Days To -, no ONE book will double your vocabulary, but reading several vocabulary-building books can double your vocabulary. Different vocabulary-building books have different words and different explanations. If you don't learn a word from one book, you can learn it from another book.
Any vocabulary-building book will have many words, a fourth to half the book, that you already understand. You can always skip or skim the easy-to-you words.
Varied, incomplete word selection is another reason for using several books. Some books just take words used on past-standardized tests, neglecting other words. Other books, limit their words to words based on word roots, neglecting others. Often authors have thrown in personal favorite words, even if others rarely use the words. If you see a word in two or three books, it's generally a need-to-know word.
The main weakness of 30 Days To A More Powerful Vocabulary, and no book is perfect, is the word selection. As one other reviwer noted: some of the definitions are dated. But the price is right and if you read several vocabulary-building books, you will not have a problem identifying the few dated words.
Other Books: Cartoon/Mnemonic vocabulary books have their fans who like the mnemonic memory aids, which are useful before tests. But with only one word and one cartoon per page, these books may only have a few hundred words and are expensive on a per word learned basis. Audio vocabulary books such as Elite Word Power, let you hearing each word pronounced correctly, helpful for improving speaking vocabulary.
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Title: WORD POWER MADE EASY by Norman Lewis ISBN: 067174190X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 15 February, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: 1000 Most Important Words by Norman Schur ISBN: 0345298632 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Thirty Days to Better English by Norman Lewis ISBN: 0451161912 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 01 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Verbal Advantage: 10 Steps to an Impressive Vocabulary by Charles Harrinton Elster ISBN: 0375709320 Publisher: Random House Reference Publishing Pub. Date: 26 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary Builder by Mary Wood Cornog ISBN: 0877799105 Publisher: Merriam-Webster Pub. Date: 01 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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