Communication Issues in Education: A Call for the Requirement for Standardized English in the Classroom Setting
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A 7 page discussion of the importance of communication in the educational environment. The author contends that communication is one of the most formidable obstacles facing non-whites in education. This paper calls for a abolishment of such non-mainstream communication styles as ebonics and an educational environment which inspires and motivates a student to accept standardized English. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Filename: PPblkEd.rtf

Comparative Analysis of Black English and Standard English
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A 12 page paper which examines the characteristics, phonological and syntactic features of Black English vernacular as compared to standard English. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: TGblaceng.rtf

Comparative Analysis of the Rhetorical Persuasion Approaches by Cicero and Longinus
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In ten pages this paper compares and contrasts the approaches of rhetorical persuasion advocated by Cicero in De Oratore (On the Orator) and Longinus in On the Sublime. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography.
Filename: TGciclong.rtf

Compliment Responses of Native Turkish ELT Students and Non-Native Turkish ELT Students: A Research Proposal
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This 4 page paper provides an overview of a research proposal regarding the use of compliment responses by ELT students. This paper also incorporates a view of pragmatic transfer. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: MHsociolingu.rtf

Compliment Responses of Native Turkish ELT Students and Non-Native Turkish ELT Students: A Review of Literature
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This 8 page paper provides an overview of a review of liteature that includes information on compliment responses, sociolinguistics and pragmatic transfer. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: MHsociolingu22.rtf

CONJUNCTIONS AND GRAMMAR
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This paper examines the role of conjunctions in English grammar. The paper discusses differences between subordinate and coordinate conjunctions and explains use of conjunctions such as "because," "since," "for" and "as." Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: MTgramma.rtf

Connectionism Versus Motor Theory: Language Processing
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10 pages in length. Virtually no element of understanding human function goes without challenge; language processing is no exception. Pitted against each other for the struggle to attain superiority, connectionism and motor theory have come to represent the two primary aspects associated with speech perception. Simply defined as learning by doing (connectivism) and learning by being (classical or motor theory), history is filled with intellectuals who eagerly posited the values of both sides, many who provided their own labels to the same concepts. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
Filename: TLClangproc.rtf

Corpus Linguistics/ BNC
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An 8 page research paper that investigates the British National Corpus (BNC) project, which is an orthographically transcribed corpus of ten million words that cover a wide range of speech variation. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: khcorlin.wps

Cross-Linguistic Research
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Linguistic research has resulted in the development of a number of theories, sometimes interconnected and sometime mutually exclusive. This 5 page paper provides an overview of a hypothetical courtroom observatoin. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: MHCrLing.rtf