FRANK SMITH

Frank Smith

Frank Smith

Introduction

Frank Smith is probably the greatest undiscovered songwriter in America. Since 1974, Frank has written more than a thousand songs and poems from his secluded location in rural Georgia. His material spans many genres and styles, but all compositions reflect Franks high standards for lyrical content, catchy melodies and memorable refrains.

This talented songwriter leads a very private life, leaving home only occasionally to cash his goverment check, buy a few lottery tickets and replentish his supply of cigarrettes. Only two friends have ever visited Frank's home; the last occasion was several years ago.

Frank composes songs on his guitar and records in the privacy of his small travel trailer, while tending to chores on the family estate. His life is simple and uncomplicated, allowing him to concentrate on his craft of writing songs without distraction.

Frank has occassionally appeared on a talk radio program where his is affectionately known as "Sheakspeare" to the local listeners for his ability to instantly create songs and poems about topical issues live on the radio.

Frank Smith needs a publisher. He would like to meet a publisher or song plugger that can place his songs with popular recording artists. He may also be interested in working with a well established publisher as a staff writer from his home. He is open to suggestions and directions from those who need original songs written for any artist in any style.

Frank writes and records his songs in his small trailer out behind the big trailer. Pictured with Frank is Robert Burr, who produced his most recent recordings.

Discussion

A psycholinguist is a social scientist who studies Psycholinguistics. Psycholinguistics is interdisciplinary in nature and is studied by people in a variety of fields, such as psychology, cognitive science, and linguistics. There are several subdivisions within psycholinguistics that are based on the components that make up human language.

Frank Smith is a psycholinguist well know for his research into educational systems and the nature of learning. Many of his articles and books are on his research on the whole language reading approach. He is the author of numerous books, including The Book of Learning and Forgetting.

He was a reporter, editor, and novelist before beginning his formal research into language, thinking, and learning. He has been a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the University of Toronto, the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

More specifically, a psycholinguist studies language, speech production and comprehension using behavioral and neurological methods traditionally developed in the field of psychology, though other methods such as corpus analysis are also widely used. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, psycholinguists can be found in linguistic, psychology, cognitive sciences, communication science, disorders and other departments. The main aim of psycholinguistics is to outline and describe the process of producing and comprehending communication. In the tradition of psychology, various models are used to further this understanding.

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