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As you build your house of words and lay your bricks, remember that the foundation is all you need to get started, that syntactical scaffolding will support it, grammar will mortar it together, and social meaning and pragmatics seal off the roof.
And thus we are stuck with an online experience in which we have to suffer through large amounts of text to find out what happened in the world yesterday, what people think of the restaurant around the corner, or what our colleagues are discussing by email.
This problem is not going away, but luckily there are some things that can help. Recently I learned about Spritz , another really exciting company that also aims to make reading less time-consuming. They developed technology that provides a text stream of words that appear sequentially at a fixed location. Through extensive testing and refinements they hit on a particular configuration that requires the least amount of effort to read the text stream at an increasingly rapid pace.
The Spritz site claims that users can easily double their normal rate of reading, and some subjects can train themselves to read up to words per minute — roughly 4 times the normal reading rate — while still understanding what they read. After playing around with Spritz I found that I could get up to the WPM limit in their demo without too much trouble. I applaud Spritz for tackling a fundamental problem of how we deal with online content. Is this a realistic goal for our listener to aim for?
Prof Webb found that people who have been studying languages in a traditional setting - say French in Britain or English in Japan - often struggle to learn more than 2, to 3, words, even after years of study.
In fact, a study in Taiwan showed that after nine years of learning a foreign language half of the students failed to learn the most frequently-used 1, words. And that is the key, the frequency with which the words you learn appear in day-to-day use in the language you're learning. You don't need to know all of the words in a language: for example it seems unlikely that anyone reading this has suffered from not knowing that "Zyzzyva" is a kind of tropical weevil and not a Spice Girls lyric.
So which words should we learn? Prof Webb says the most effective way to be able to speak a language quickly is to pick the to 1, lemmas which appear most frequently in a language, and learn those.
These lemmas are a lot more valuable than other words, simply because they're used far more often. For example it's much more useful to know the word "house" than the word "abode," and you'll get fewer odd looks if you say "perhaps" rather than "peradventure". So is there light at the end of the tunnel for our frustrated German student?
The reason is to generate more clicks. Why did I choose to make it word long in the first place? Actually, it suggested words, to be exact. It may not tell how many pages are words, but sure it will show you how to make those words count SEO-wise. You can download INK for free here. How long does it take to write words? A word piece is relatively short, and this is where you have to pay attention. It could take you two hours or a couple of days to complete a word content or essay.
That will depend on the topic at hand and your disposition. Just begin writing, then keep on writing. There would be some time-consuming polishing and rewriting involved later. But you will have had a clear vision of your essay and where you want to take it and how. You have to keep the reader engaged in your story. You only have words, make them interesting, informative, concise, and fun to read. Besides the topic, the structure of the paper must make for an easy read. Play with paragraphs length, use transitional sentences, fill in the gaps, trim away junk sentences.
Focus on the content and the form of your writing. You probably know the standard essay format from middle and high school: the classic introduction — main body — conclusion format. Your essay must consist of these three major sections: introduction, body, and conclusion.
Here are some things that you should consider while working on these sections:. You have to words to introduce your topic and hook your readers.
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