Download or read book Plain Principles of Prose Composition written by William Minto and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Elements of Rhetoric written by Alphonso Gerald Newcomer and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Elements of Rhetoric: A Course in Plain Prose Composition This book differs from most treatises upon rhetoric and composition in two particulars - arrangement, and proportion. The common order is reversed, and the study of words, instead of being put first, is put last, while at the outset attention is centred upon methods of gathering and ordering material. The reason for this should be plain. Composition must begin with ideas. Diction is the very last consideration in the process of constructing an essay - it may even be reserved until revision. If words be thrust first upon the attention, the student naturally supposes that words, instead of the ideas behind them, are his raw material. Composition becomes to him wholly an artificial thing. Freshness, independence, naturalness, ease, are put far from him, perhaps never to be attained. It is a matter of history that, excepting here and there a Pater and a Stevenson, our masters of letters have not come into their kingdom through wrestling with words. Such I offer as the main defense of this book, and reason for its being. The proportion of parts has been determined both by the foregoing consideration and by experience. The bulk of matter in our rhetorics is traditionary and, except for higher, critical purposes, useless. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Essentials of Prose Composition Classic Reprint written by James Morgan Hart and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Essentials of Prose Composition This book, accordingly, is only a strenuous effort on my part to image, see p. 175, the English question and dis cover the most practicable solution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book English Prose Composition written by Edward Fulton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English Prose Composition: With Illustrative Examples IN the main, the present work is a revision of the author's Rhetoric and Composition, published some five or six years ago. A radical change of plan and the addition of a number of specimens of the different types of composition have seemed, however, to justify the use of a new title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Manual of the Art of Prose Composition written by J. M. Bonnell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Manual of the Art of Prose Composition: For the Use of Colleges and Schools IN the preparation of this work, it has been no part of the compiler's aim to be original. He has sought rather to select from the various treatises on this subject those rules and exercises which have been approved by the experience 'of teachers, and to com bine them into one consistent whole, arranged with reference to the progressive development of the learner's powers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book First Lessons in English Prose Composition Classic Reprint written by J. M. Bonnell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from First Lessons in English Prose Composition Proprieties OF style. XVII. - Diction, XVIII. - XX. - Propriety of Diction, XXL - Original Composition, as before. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book English Composition Classic Reprint written by Hammond Lamont and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English Composition For permission to use copyrighted material in this book grateful acknowledgments are due McClure, Phillips, & Company for part of a story, The Play's the Thing, from George Madden Martin's Emmy Lou; Longmans, Green, & Company for a sketch of Charles Lever from Andrew Lang's Essays in Little; the Century Company for short passages from each of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Books; President Charles William Eliot and Houghton, Mifflin, & Company for a description (with diagram) of Gore Place, Waltham, from Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect; Houghton, Mifflin, & Company also for a description of the Cathedral of Chartres from Henry James's Portraits of Places; Professor George Francis Atkinson and Henry Holt & Company for a piece of exposition (with cut) from Studies of American Fungi; and the Macmillan Company for several pages (with cut) from Alfred Russel Wallace's Darwinism. For other illustrative matter I am indebted to many former pupils, particularly James Harper Chase and Mrs. George Albert Goulding. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Structural Principles of Style Applied A Manual of English Prose Composition written by John Daniel Logan and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Specimens of Prose Composition written by Charles Read Nutter and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Specimens of Prose Composition: Edited, With Introduction and Notes Charles Scribner's sons, the American Unitarian Associa tion, the Century Co., Dodd, Mead Co., The Outlook, Henry Holt Co., Harper Bros., Doubleday, Page Co., and mcclure, Phillips Co.; to Mr. E. R. Lewis for the use of his brief and argument on the question Should the United States Collect the Debts of San and to Mr. W. H. Bishop for the use of his brief and argu ment on the question Should a National Forest Reserve be Established in the White as well as to the other students Who, in permitting the reproduction of their themes, have furnished an indispensable part of these specimens of composition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Principles of Composition Classic Reprint written by Percy Holmes Boynton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Principles of Composition In order to save a great many unnecessary longhand corrections, the following abbreviations to be placed in the margin are very generally used. In addition to these, if the passage commented on is a brief one, it is usually underlined; if more than a few words in length, a vertical line indicating its extent is usually placed at the right edge of the margin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Principles of Composition Classic Reprint written by Henry G. Pearson and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Principles of Composition This book has been written to meet the requirement of the course in English Composition given to students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the first term of the Freshman year. The course covers sixteen weeks, and the class meets twice a week. The course consists of written work and recitations. For the first of these each student is expected to write every week, outside the class, a theme of from three to four hundred words in length. This theme is delivered to the instructor at the beginning of one of the exercises, is read by him, and at the next exercise is handed back, with his criticisms written upon it. In accordance with these criticisms the student revises his work, in the first part of the term by rewriting the whole theme in the classroom under the eye of the instructor, and later by making on the original copy the changes indicated. The oral work consists of recitations on the substance of the textbook, and the discussion of such errors as the students have shown themselves most prone to commit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Structure of English Prose written by John George Repplier McElroy and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Structure of English Prose: A Manual of Composition and Rhetoric The teacher of Rhetoric has a double office. First, and chiefly, he must make writers; secondly, he must so exhibit the laws of his art as to promote mental discipline. In other words, he must be practical, without being a mere empiricist; he must be rational, without for an instant losing sight of skill in composition. With these views in mind, I have tried to fill what seemed to me an empty place among books on Rhetoric. None of them, I thought, aimed at practical results, without sacrificing too far the principles of the art; none of them taught these principles in their fullness, without sacrificing in part or in whole the practical side of the work. I have aimed to strike the happy medium, - to make a book that shall teach composition while it forces the student to think, and shall exhibit the principles of the art at the same time that it keeps uppermost the problem How to Write. I have adopted Dr. Shedd's words quoted on my title-page, accepting fully the doctrine that Thought is more than Style, and modifying this doctrine by only one other truth - a truth to which Dr. Shedd would doubtless equally assent - that worthy thought deserves, as it promotes, an excellent form. This, by the way, is Herbert Spencer's opinion, too. Though he extols practice, he adds, "Never with the principles of style. If in no other way, yet, as facilitating revision, a knowledge of the thing to be achieved - a clear idea of what constitutes a beauty, and what a blemish - can not fail to be of service." I have also tried to exhibit the laws of Rhetoric in their entirety, - not the laws of Style alone, but also those of Invention. However we may quibble about that word Invention in its rhetorical sense, Rhetoric does teach other laws than those of Form; and these laws must be exhibited, if the art is to be taught fully. I admit freely that, in a book whose chief aim is skill in composition, Invention will occupy a considerably less number of pages than Style; and, hence, even after saying what I have said of the superior importance of Invention [ 32], I have given by far the greater portion of my whole space to Style. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Download or read book A Progressive Course in English Literature Composition Classic Reprint written by Charles Maurice Stebbins and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Progressive Course in English Literature Composition IN this volume an attempt has been made to bring into close natural relations elementary work in litera ture and composition. The primary principles of rhetoric have been developed inductively, and applied immediately to the work in literature and composi tion. As in the other books of this series, as much opportunity as possible has been given to the pupil for the cultivation of his powers of self-discovery and self-expression. It has also been the aim of the writer to make this, in reality, a progressive course in English. Not only does the subject-matter proceed from the simple to the complex in the order of the subjects treated; but in the treatment of the various subjects, the advance ment goes forward a single step at a time. Funda mental elements are treated first in every case, suggestive helps being given until such time as the pupil should be able to do without them. This makes it possible for the teacher to omit any chapter or to take any chapter in an order different from that of the book, if he so desires. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Modern Composition and Rhetoric written by Lewis Worthington Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Modern Composition and Rhetoric: Brief Course; Containing the Principles of Correct English for Schools Nearly two thousand years ago Quintilian defined rhetoric as the art of speaking well. Had he lived in the present age, he would undoubtedly have said, the art of speaklng and' of writing well. No better phrase can be found to describe the true function of rhetoric to-day. Previous to the last decade it was regarded as an ornamental study, abounding in theory and subtle dis tinctions of diction and style. With the development of the study of English in the schools came an awakening to the true value of rhetoric, and its relation to the study of literature and composition. To-day rhetoric and com position are inseparably associated in teaching the methods of simple, direct, and accurate expression, the principle of one being supplemented by the abundant practice of the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Writing English Prose Classic Reprint written by William Tenney Brewster and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Writing English Prose In order better to understand the nature of the study of formal English composition, let us give a brief account of the medium of writing in English, and of certain general conditions that accompany the act. Many of these are common, as will appear, to writing in all languages, and also to speaking. On them all sensible study of English composi tion must be based; you cannot get away from them; and any theory of writing that tried to avoid them would be wild and useless. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.