http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/annotated-bibliography Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:22:15 -0400 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:22:15 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/307/english-student-resource-guide-annotated-bibliography-of-four-general-dictionaries By Elizabeth A. Jennings - Is not consistent in maintaining distinctions between often confused words. Maintains distinctions for these often confused words: alright/all right, disinterested/uninterested, affect/effect, but not for these: anxious/eager, nauseous/nauseated, enormousness/enormity. The usage notes are ambivalent. For example, the usage note for affect is prescriptive: “Affect and effect have no senses in common.” The usage note for anxious is descriptive: “Anxious has a long history of use roughly as a synonym for eager, but many prefer that anxious be used only when its subject is worried... Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:54 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/307/english-student-resource-guide-annotated-bibliography-of-four-general-dictionaries http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/306/english-student-resource-guide-annotated-bibliography-of-various-english-resources By Elizabeth A. Jennings - Remarks in the introductory material indicate that the philosophy of the work is prescriptive. For example, in the introductory article “On Usage, Purism, and Pedantry,” Follett says, “Skill in expression consists in nothing else than steadily choosing the fittest among all possible words, idioms, and constructions.” In the introductory article “On the Need of Some Grammar,” he states, “What concerns us here is that . . . language as the art of self-expression, language as a material conformable to the rules of creation, remains a subject deserving man... Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:37 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/306/english-student-resource-guide-annotated-bibliography-of-various-english-resources