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  • Elementary English Composition

    Document thumbnail: Elementary English Composition
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    1900 printing of 1900 Canadian copyrighted text. The author is credited with a MA and a PhD. A school composition book that features verses for memorization and short themes that lead to a mix of lessons and exercises in discussing, correcting, and reproducing text. Sections cover kinds of narration (household tales, fables, biblical stories, classical myths, stories from ancient history, medieval stories, modern history stories, incidents); letter forms (business, social); description (plants, animals, buildings, landscapes, nature phenomena, persons, games); description and narration (the short story); exposition (how things are made, machines, definition of terms); and argument (pure argument, persuasion) Some pictorial illustrations included. The Schultz Archive is roughly the complete 222 page text.
    Creator/Author:
    Sykes, Frederick Henry, 1863-1917
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/14/2020
    Date Created:
    1900
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0