Roget's International Thesaurus, 6th Edition | Barbara Ann Kipfer

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	Roget's International Thesaurus, 6th Edition Barbara Ann Kipfer Collins, 2002 - 1280 pages average customer review:based on 53 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The ONLY gift for a college-bound graduate!!

I taught English, Latin and French for 33 years. I went through dozens of copies of this Thesaurus and recommended it to all my students. It is absolutely essential for anyone who is writing or translating. It has been my standard graduation gift for all the college-bound seniors I want to remember. Many of them are now teachers and tell me they keep copies in their classrooms. Nothing else, in any form, including the on-line varity can replace it.

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As wonderful as I expected it to be...couldn't ask for anything better. Makes writing a breeze! I strongly recommend to anyone who needs to write for their job, school or personal leisure.

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The value of this Roget edition.

There is no reference source which can hope to approach the import of this Roget volume.

Roget's International Thesaurus

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The new catagorical orgainization severely damages this edition.

An earlier reviewer, John L. Pope, is right on the money about this. The organizational arrangement used for the editions up to and including the 4th was a sublime and beautiful exploratory exposition of the English language. The new editions suffer from the idea that simplistic presentation, aimed at the "average" user, will be more "user-friendly". In fact, the opposite is true, as those who are most likely to use this work are precisely those most likely to be frustrated by this 'dumbing down' of what is an unparalleled and irreplaceable reference tool. I pray that Roget's recognize the folly of this course eventually, for I, too, have returned to the 4th edition, which means that I don't get the benefit of the new words & phrases that have been added in the two published since.

Those who claim that a thesaurus in dictionary form is better have no idea what they are talking about. If you don't realize that an indexed type is infinitely superior, it's because you don't know how to use it properly. A thesaurus is not meant as a dictionary replacement, but is meant to be used in concert with a dictionary. Each is arranged in the way most proper for its purpose.

The fact is, this thesaurus does have an alphabetical listing, and that is properly the place where one starts when using it -- it's called the index, and it takes up about 1/4 or more of the entire volume. When looking for a synonym or related word, one goes to the index and looks up the word one wants a synonym for in the alphabetical listing. Several senses of the word will be presented, with a different page listing for each.

Choosing a sense of the word, you now proceed to the page referenced in the index for that sense. There, the word you looked up will be found in a block of words with similar meaning.

But what makes this type so much better than those in "dictionary form" is that, if you don't find the word you're looking for right away, you can "spiral" outward from where you first looked -- because the words are arranged by concept, and so various shades of meaning of the word or idea you're looking for will be found grouped closely to one another. The word groups have a decimal arrangement, so that the group labelled 4.18.3 is a subset of 4.18; this arrangement allows one to skim through the groups in 4.18 to see whether there's a sense that is closer to what you're looking for than is the group that you originally were directed to by the index. This, in turn, might send you back to the index with a newer, closer word, which will direct you to a group with a different common component than was the one shared by those in the block you searched previously. As this process continues, you get closer and closer to finding the ideal word to convey your feeling or idea. Along the way, you gain insight into the conceptual and historical relationships between the words, and clarify for yourself precisely how this idea lies in relation to the similar ideas which surround it. The fine grain of its differentiation lends to increased appreciation of the unique character of individual words and phrases.

If you are considering buying a thesaurus, absolutely get one that is indexed. Before passing judgement on it, take 15 or 20 minutes to read the guide at the front on how to use it. I guarantee that you won't be disappointed. Anyone who has properly used an indexed thesaurus will know beyond doubt that other formats cannot possibly approach its power and utility.

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