Word: workbook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lipsey and Steiner book costs $14.95, one dollar less than the Samuelson book. The corresponding workbook costs $4.95, two dollars less than the Samuelson workbook...
...dialogue with readers. Says Van Nostrand: "It is easier to organize your information for someone else than for yourself." In a typical course, 15 to 30 students meet with an instructor twice a week for 90-minute sessions. The core of the program is a 331-page workbook outlining a series of laborious drills that break the writing process into simple steps...
...Nostrand concedes that his drills can be ponderous; his first workbook, he laughs, looked and sounded "like an Army training manual." But students generally find the course helpful. Says Wheaton Freshman Tricia Dunn: "It really makes it clear to me what I'm doing when I sit down to write." Others praise the close supervision, which gives the course the feeling of a private tutorial. Yet the method also has its critics. A common complaint, voiced by another Wheaton student, is that the repetitive drilling can be "a terrific bore and is not exactly creative." Admits Katherine Feeney...
...This other person is more courteous than you." Such destructive criticism helps couples to learn that hostility separates people. On the other hand, anger is rewarded in Malone's course because it can actually draw people closer. Husband and wife are counseled, each in his private workbook, to buy a gift in secret and present it after the other "first allows himself to be openly angry with you instead of hostile." For reasons that are not explained, the gift is to be given at 3 a.m. on the morning after anger is displayed-a time seemingly calculated to produce...