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English Composition and Style; A Handbook for College Students (Paperback)
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English Composition and Style; A Handbook for College Students (Paperback)
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index.
Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book
(without typos) from the publisher. 1913. Not illustrated. Excerpt:
... chapter ii subjects and titles The great question, "What shall
I write about?" is answered in the actual world of discourse by
one's desires, interests, and mental resources, by a knowledge of
an audience and the call of an occasion or an editor. In school and
college courses in rhetoric it is usually answered by the selection
of subjects suitable for training at a special stage. Evidently the
more nearly the latter conditions may imitate the former the
better. For convenience in this chapter we may say that good
subjects for training comprise (1) reproductions of what is already
in print, as translations and summaries, (2) personal subjects,
taken from one's experience or interests and involving observation
and imagination, and (3) learned subjects which call for some
reading and research. This classification is less accurate and
complete than suggestive, but it will be found to be not very far
from what authors are actually writing about, though the varieties
in each class are legion. Translation and summary. The function of
these forms in the world of writing is to make more accessible
facts expressed in an unknown tongue, or what is of too great
length for the reader with limited time, or, in longer works, to
serve as illustration. This last function needs further
explanation; the necessity for the others is evident. Of the use of
summary to illustrate a point, the following example will serve.
Walter Bagehot, in a brilliant essay entitled, Wordsworth, Tennyson
and Browning; or, Pure, Ornate, and Grotesque Art in English
Poetry,1 used his poets to illustrate his idea of the three kinds
of art. Of " ornate art" he says: 1 Literary Essays. The extreme
opposite to this pure art is what may be called ornate art. This
species of art aims also at giving a delineat...
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Imprint: |
General Books LLC
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2012 |
First published: |
2012 |
Authors: |
William Tenney Brewster
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Dimensions: |
246 x 189 x 9mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
168 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-150-66071-9 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-150-66071-6 |
Barcode: |
9781150660719 |
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