Jeff Deck
Auteur van The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Deck, Jeffrey Michael
- Geboortedatum
- 1980-02-27
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Somerville, Massachusetts, USA
- Opleiding
- Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
- Beroepen
- Writer
editor - Organisaties
- Typo Eradication Advancement League
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- Jeff Kleinman (Folio Lit)
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- 380
- Populariteit
- #63,551
- Waardering
- 3.3
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- 26
- ISBNs
- 6
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- 1
The authors partly blame poor phonics instruction for some of the persistent errors people make, and further make the mistake of fixing upon the routinized, scripted chanted Direct Instruction model as a possible answer. Good phonics instruction does indeed make some spelling errors much less likely, but it's a lot more complicated than that.
However, the book is on the whole a diverting read, despite its flaws, and the stories of odd little encounters with shopkeepers and the musings on the ethics of correcting people's grammar make it worth reading.
I also didn't catch any unintended typos. Because I am someone who (a) learned to read with phonics, (b) is a visual reader, (c) taught middle school English, and (d) has been a voracious reader all her life, I can't avoid seeing any errors in my reading.… (meer)