Ronald Ridout
Ronald Joseph Ridout (23 July 1916 โ 5 December 1994)[1] was a prolific English writer of school textbooks. His textbooks include the hugely successful series English Today.[2]
Biography
Ronald Ridout was born in
Quotations
"What we must do is to steer between these two extremes and develop a way of speaking that most effectively expresses what we want to say. We want a speech that will do its job well. Everything that does its job well has a beauty of its own. Hence we talk of a beautiful runner, a beautiful dancer, a beautiful engine. They all have functional beauty, the beauty of functioning perfectly, the beauty of being perfectly suited to the job they have to do. So with speech: we want an instrument that is beautiful, not because it puts on decorative airs, but because it does its work beautifully, perfectly."
From English Today, Ronald Ridout, Ginn & Company, 1947, pp. 111โ112
Bibliography
(selected bibliography)
A. to Z. of English, (with Michael Tristram, Neil Straker and Timothy Jaques),
Better English (1961) Ginn & Company, (reprinted 2000 by Heinemann
Book for Me to Read (with Ruth Ainsworth), Series, Purnell Bancroft
Children's Dictionary (1983)
English Now, Books 1 - 5, Ginn & Company
English Today, Books 1 - 5 (1947), Ginn & Company
English Workbooks, Books 1 - 8, Ginn & Company
English Workbooks for the Caribbean, Books 1 - 8, (1968) Ginn & Company
Evans Graded Verse (with Michael Knight) (1978), Evans Bros.
Facts of English (with Clifford Witting) (1973)
Getting on with Dividing (with Michael Holt and Jon Miller) (1986)
Getting on with Mathematics (with Michael Holt and Jon Miller) (1986) Collins
Getting on with Multiplying (with Michael Holt and Jon Miller) (1986),
Getting on with Spelling, Series, (with Michael Holt and Leon Baxter), (1986), Collins
The Life Cycle of Cats (with Michael Holt), illustrated by Tony Payne. Grosset & Dunlap, (1974)
The Macmillan Dictionary of English Proverbs Explained (with Clifford Witting), Macmillan Publishers
Now I Can Spell (with Michael Holt) (1987)
Now I Can Take Away (1985),
Now I Can Write, Series, (with Michael Holt) (1987), Collins
Picture Words (1975),
Ridout pocket spelling dictionary (1979) Ginn & Company
Self Help English,
Word Perfect (with George Adamson), Books 1 - 8, (1957โ60) Ginn & Company
Write in English, Books 1 - 8, (1974) Ginn & Company
References
- ^ a b Contemporary Authors Online (2003) Detroit, Gale
- ^ The Writers Directory, 12th ed. (1996) St. James Press, Detroit
- ^ Bedales, UK
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