Sentence examples for prescriptive reading from inspiring English sources

"So far as I can tell that kind of narrowly prescriptive reading only happens in the offices of school superintendents".

The story's headline, "WARNING: THE LITERARY CANON COULD MAKE STUDENTS SQUIRM," and the inclusion of some seemingly innocuous titles, like "The Great Gatsby," as candidates for such warnings, dredged up all my distaste for my professor's prescriptive reading of "Lolita".

Solomon never addresses the question of aspiration head on — his book is not that prescriptive — but, reading it, I found myself thinking about my own childhood.

"As long as children are reading I don't think we should be prescriptive about the method they use to find a story.

For those who don't understand why FourSquare is catching on in select urban areas as a virtual game of sorts, I recommend reading Alice Marwick's piece on locative media and prescriptive social software.

Apparently, she read the kids a prescriptive book about different families, which sounded fantastic in theory.

For those young women seeking to successfully balance their career in STEM with their family life, the handbook is an inspiring read rather than a prescriptive treatment.

In 1862, when prescriptive grammar ruled, Thoreau wrote: "When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly … I think – Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it".

Prescriptive insights say 'do this not that'.

But read on if you want some background and a few prescriptive words about a new, more useful approach to advertising and the nature of media in a digital, social era.

There was an assortment of rambling answers, some personal, some prescriptive, mostly earnest -- "We need to change the kinds of books and movies people read and watch".