COMMENTS: reem mohamad abdel hamid raafat

The title of the book "Psycholinguistics"directly represents the material of the book.It is a short,clear and precise that can be understood by the readers(TAKE this out).The contents list is simple as it shows the reader how the book is divided into four sections and the information tackled in every section.The book includes two prefaces.The first preface is written by the Series Editor H.G. Widdowson and the second is by the Author Thomas Scovel.In his preface,Widdowson mentions about the purpose of the book(TAKE this out). (According to the author's preface), the first (main) purpose of the book is to help linguistic scholars (linguists) as well as others who are only interested in this field to know more about this branch.This purpose can be illustrated by the transitional????? texts which will ease people into an understanding of complex ideas.Widdowson says"This series of introduction is designed to serve this need.Another purpose of the book is to act as a large_scale view of language.The design of the book is also discussed in his preface in away that enables the reader to know how the book tackles its ideas.The book is designed to start by the survey which explains the ideas in a simple and easy language that con be easily understood.Next to the survey comes the readings given by the author to the reader in order to come closer to the material,its idioms and other books discussing the same field.Then,the references section which paves the way for the reader to know more about this branch.Finally,the glossary section is mentioned and it is cross_referenced to the survey and it introduces the reader to know more information about the terms used in the book.The design pf the book reflects its purpose as it a clear and simple design that can be read by different people.Widdowson declares that that the four sections combine together to give a complete information about the ideas o the book.Every reader can use any of the four sections separately according to his own interest.The second preface is written by the Author Thomas Scovel in which he declares his responsibility for any kind of omission and commission in the book.Then,he pays special thanks to his wife and all people who supported him in his work.The preface of the author did not add anything important to the reader.(TAKE this out) COMMENTS: Reem, try to avoid redundancy and to get to the point with as few words as possible.