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Type:: Document
Description/Abstract:: 1896 printing of 1896 copyrighted work. Part of the International Education Series. The author is credited with both a Ph.D. and an LL.D., as Professor of the Science and the Art of Teaching in the University of Michigan, and as the author of several books of diverse subject matter. W. T. Harris writes the editor's preface: A collection of thoughts on language, influences include Aristotle and Quintilian and Spencer and Lowell, covering its use, its growth, the study of its mechanics, its grammatical and logical structures, the order of mastering its use in speaking, reading, and writing. The discussion covers primary, grammar, high school, and college instruction. Chapters IV, V, and VI relay facts drawn from child study. Chapters VII, VIII, IX, X, and XIII discuss the higher function of literature. Chapter VIII discusses the use of paraphrasing to aid comprehension. The author's preface speaks back to the Harvard Committee's reports on students' writing skills. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete text.
Creator/Author:: Hinsdale, B. A. (Burke Aaron), 1837-1900
Submitter:: Russel Durst
Date Uploaded:: 05/26/2016
Date Modified:: 07/28/2020
Date Created:: 1896
License:: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Type:: Document
Description/Abstract:: 1896 copyrighted text. Practical construction and logical arrangement of lessons designed to lead the pupil from perception to expression, illustration to definition, sentence-building to composition. It uses pictures, poems and unfinished stories for exercises as well as questions at the beginning of lessons. Progressive lessons on word forms and sentences structure are combined with exercises in narration and description. Good models are used to teach good style through imitation. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
Creator/Author:: Hawkins, Edward
Submitter:: Russel Durst
Date Uploaded:: 05/23/2016
Date Modified:: 08/19/2019
Date Created:: 1896
License:: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Type:: Document
Description/Abstract:: A grammar handbook that features a wide array of exercises to stimulate young minds. Illustrations, letter composition, and other techniques commonly featured.
Creator/Author:: Welsh, Judson Perry
Submitter:: Russel Durst
Date Uploaded:: 05/23/2016
Date Modified:: 08/14/2020
Date Created:: 1896
License:: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Type:: Document
Description/Abstract:: A handbook focusing on different aspects of expression including methods, forms, aesthetics, and departments.
Creator/Author:: Welsh, Alfred H. (Alfred Hix), 1850-1889
Submitter:: Russel Durst
Date Uploaded:: 05/23/2016
Date Created:: 1896
License:: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Type:: Document
Description/Abstract:: 1896 printing of 1889 copyrighted text. Author is credited with a Master of Arts, (of) Ohio State University, and as the author of several other texts on various subjects. A manual for school work that is a sequel to ordinary grammar textbooks and an introduction to rhetoric. For a composition course that develops critical literary taste, habits of systematic investigation, and the power of expressing a train of thought in appropriate language. Subjects are progressive in arrangement and exercises are graduated. The exercises cover kinds of discourse: descriptive, narrative, and discursive. Paraphrasing, reproduction from memory, classification of thoughts, topical analysis, summarizing, punctuation, letter writing, and versification are also covered. The author credits the influence of Meiklejohn, Dagleish, Armstrong, Hiley, Reid, Monfries, Murison, Brewer, Laurie, Isbister, Leitch, Bardeen, Southworth, and Goddard. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 204 page text.
Creator/Author:: Welsh, Alfred H. (Alfred Hix), 1850-1889
Submitter:: Russel Durst
Date Uploaded:: 05/23/2016
Date Modified:: 08/14/2020
Date Created:: 1896
License:: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Type:: Document
Description/Abstract:: 1896 printing of 1896 copyrighted text. Author is credited as Teacher of English in Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. The book is a collection of speeches presented at the Brooklyn Teachers' Association on the subject of elementary composition. Chapter 1, A Word to the Reader, states the author believes composition may include speaking as well as writing and work by a community as well as work by individuals. It also voices concern about composition teaching that invents a barrier of formulas and conventionality. Chapters cover letter-writing, story-telling, word-collecting, descriptions, the simile and personification, elaboration of sentences into paragraphs, outlining compositions, criticism and other various topics. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 114 page text.
Creator/Author:: Spalding, Elizabeth H.
Submitter:: Russel Durst
Date Uploaded:: 05/23/2016
Date Modified:: 08/12/2020
Date Created:: 1896
License:: Public Domain Mark 1.0

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