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Introduction to Latin: A Workbook Second Edition is an essential companion to Introduction to Latin Second Edition by Susan C. Shelmerdine, providing a wealth of additional innovative exercises of the type found in the textbook, that help students build reflexes in the Latin language. Exercises include fill-in-the-blank, identifying cases or other forms underlined in sentences, finding agreements, and more. Answers to all the exercises are provided in the back of the book for students to check their work. The Workbook maintains the structure of Shelmerdine's...

• Readings arranged in order of complexity to match the typical first-year course
• Vocabulary and grammar notes appear on facing pages
• Brief introductions provide background information
• A complete glossary...

In "Rehearsing New Roles: How College Students Develop as Writers, "Lee Ann Carroll argues for a developmental perspective to counter the fantasy held by many college faculty that students should, or could, be taught to write once so that ever after, they can write effectively on any topic, any place, any time. Carroll demonstrates in this volume why a one- or two-semester, first-year course in writing cannot meet all the needs of even more experienced writers. She then shows how students complex literacy skills develop slowly, often idiosyncratically, over the course of their college...

This book is about learning the phrases and sentences and getting to grips with saying the language, without going into the grammar first. In that way you can have fun in learning how to say certain things and also you do not come up against stumbling blocks and frustrations.

The idea behind this thinking was because when I was a child my parents used to tell me words before they taught me how to do the alphabet, so I thought that was a better way round; get used to the language first.

I wrote this book to how I thought the student of the language could assimilate and understand it...