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Aids to English Composition: prepared for students of all grades; embracing specimens and models of school and college exercises and most of the higher departments of English composition, both in prose and verse

Type:

Document

Description/Abstract:

1844 printing of the 1844 copyrighted text. The title page says the book is designed as a sequel to Progressive Exercises in English Composition. As with its predecessor, this text seeks to address two primary obstacles for student writers: obtaining ideas and expressing ideas. The author's approach to obtaining ideas is based on what he terms the principle of association. The exercises herein are not presented as a progressive course, but rather are meant to be selected by teachers as they deem useful. The material varies from sample sentences for punctuation practice, to models of the various kinds of compositions, to long lists of subjects for different kinds of compositions. There are seventy-five lessons in all. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.

Creator/Author:

Parker, Richard Green, 1798-1869

Submitter:

Russel Durst

Date Uploaded:

05/23/2016

Date Modified:

08/21/2019

Date Created:

1844

License:

Public Domain Mark 1.0