Title - One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw Author: Rybczynski, Witold Publisher: Scribner's Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre One Good Turn explores the surprising historical and technological evolution of one of the world's most ubiquitous, yet often overlooked, tools. Inform Informational RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 3696 7+ 1110 Amazon RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels Sentences Total Words Different Words Max Word/Sent 45 Total # of Words 2632 # of Different Words 940 Ave Word/.Sent 17 Hi Freq occurs 1568 59.6% # of Hi freq words 273 29% % of Long Sentences 44.9 Low Freq occurs 382 14.5% # of Low freq words 301 32% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Formal Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Captions Concepts: Abstract/Complex Environmental Chapters Prior Knowledge: Basic understanding. Footnotes Features First Person Topics Tools *Technology & Progress Low Frequency Words academy accurate adapted addition adze aedificorum alcohol allegorical altar alternate alternatively antecedents apex application appreciate archaeologists architect article astronomy auger basically bevel bifocal biography biology boxwood boyhood breakthrough breast buckling cabinetwork campin candidate categories category cellist chalk characteristic characterized chiefly chisel chisels circular civilization college combination combines compose concrete construction contender continuous convenient counterpart craftsman cranked crosscut crowbar current curved dating degrees delicate despite diameter digiti disappointment discount disston dominican doubt dual durable earliest ease editor editors effect effective effectiveness egyptian egyptians electrical electricity elegant embarrassed enables engineer engines eventually evolution evolve evolved exclusively explanations extensions exterior familiar farsighted felling fitted florence forged framing friar fully gadgets generator grasped grinders hacksaw hammering handled hardware hatchet helpfully historian hoping idle importance impress improvements incorporates increasing inexpensive influence ingenious initially inspired installed integral introduced invention inventions inventor issue ivory japanese joints joists kerf kern laborious laborsaving level levels libella likewise literacy literal mallets mao's maul mauls measure measurement measuring mechanical medieval mensor mention metropolitan microscope millennium millennium's miter momentous moreover motion motive mousetraps movement neglects nevertheless nineteenth occasional occurred optics originally ourselves palms particular particularly patient pennsylvania philadelphia physics pincers pistol plastered pleasure plumbing portable portrait possessions practical precisely predate pressure principle process productivity professional project provides purpose qualify recalcitrant recently reciprocal recollect refinement regula relationship relatively reminder representations requests required resemblance resembled resembling resistance responsible result resulting retractable rewards rigid roman rotary rotational roughly rounded rural saint sander sawed sawing science scientific seemingly separate sermon serviceable seventeenth shaft shaping shingler's shipley shortly skew sledgehammer socket socketed solution specialized spectacles stamping stiffened structure stubborn studs suggests surely surrounded surveying suspended tapered taut temporary theme thwarted tightening timber timbers toothed topics traditional trial triptych twelfths unciae unfortunately unique unsentimental unstayed variation variety vertically virtues voltage weighty whence woodworkers woodworking workhorse workshop worthy yardstick yardsticks