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  • A Course in Expository Writing

    Document thumbnail: A Course in Expository Writing
    Type:
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    Description/Abstract:
    1899 printing of the 1899 copyrighted work. Both authors are credited as Instructors in English at Vassar College. Buck has a Ph.D. from Michigan. Woodbridge has a Ph.D. from Yale. The preface emphasizes that students need a sense of a real audience for their writing as well as a subject they're interested in. The prefaces says the work includes few explicit directions on sentences and paragraphs. It offers Scott and Denney's Composition-Rhetoric as a guide for those. The work is organized in four chapters: the basis of exposition, the process of description, description in its relation to exposition, and definition in its relation to exposition. The text itself is quite discursive, providing lengthy discussions of the writing processes with analyzed examples. The lessons posit different subjects, writing situations, or audiences, while also usually asking students to observe and comment upon examples by distinguished authors that treat similar situations, subjects, audience, etc. The Schultz Archive's copy is the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Buck, Gertrude, 1871-1922 and Morris, Elisabeth Woodbridge, 1870-1964
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    06/05/2019
    Date Created:
    1899
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0