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  • School Composition: Being Advanced Language-Lessons For Grammar Schools

    Document thumbnail: School Composition: Being Advanced Language-Lessons For Grammar Schools
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    1874 printing of 1874 copyrighted text. Author is credited with a Master of Arts and as the author of several language texts. A manual for school work for students ages 12 to 15 made with reference to the recent remodeling of language-training in the public schools. Students are given exercise in actual composition at the same time they taught the details of rhetorical theory, based on the idea that pupils must be taught how to write at all, before they can be shown how to write well. The text is divided into five parts. Part one covers the construction and combination of sentences. Part two: the variation of arrangement, structure, and phraseology. Part three: simple composition exercises, including descriptive and narrative subjects. Part four: Style, including word choice, construction, figures of language, and analysis of style. Part five: practical composition of themes and essays. The preface credits the influence of English Prose Composition by James Currie, Cornwall's Young Composer, Dalgleish's English Composition, and Armstrong's English Composition. The Schultz Archive copy includes the preface, TOC, introduction, all of part three, pages 82 – 87 of part four, and all of part five.
    Creator/Author:
    Swinton, William, 1833-1892
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/16/2020
    Date Created:
    1874
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • The Foundations of Rhetoric

    Document thumbnail: The Foundations of Rhetoric
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    1893 printing of 1892 copyrighted text. The author is credited as the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard University. Preface begins with Swift's definition of good style: proper words in proper places. The author adds a third aim of style: to use no more words than necessary. He calls these three objectives the foundations of rhetoric. Part one is about words and contains two books: words and not words (covering grammar); and words to choose. Part two is about sentences. Book one, sentences good and bad, covers clearness, force, ease, and unity. Book two, sentences to choose, covers long of short sentences, periodic or loose sentences, and principals of choice. Part three is about paragraphs covers characteristics of a good paragraph, sentences in a paragraph, and paragraphs by themselves and in succession. Each lesson begins with an example or examples for the students to use to try and discover the rule. The Schultz Archive copy contain the preface, TOC, and a few pages from part three.
    Creator/Author:
    Hill, Adams Sherman, 1833-1910
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/27/2020
    Date Created:
    1893
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism with Copious Practical Exercises and Examples. For the Use of Common Schools and Academies. Including, Also, a Succinct History of the English Language, and of British and American Literature from the Earliest to the Present Times. On the Basis of Recent Works of Alexander Reid and Robert Connel

    Document thumbnail: Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism with Copious Practical Exercises and Examples. For the Use of Common Schools and Academies. Including, Also, a Succinct History of the English Language, and of British and American Literature from the Earliest to the Present Times. On the Basis of Recent Works of Alexander Reid and Robert Connel
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    1844 printing of 1844 copyrighted text. The author has a Master of Arts degree and is principal of Black River L. and R. Institute. As indicated by the title, Boyd's compilation is a comprehensive examination of English composition as well as rhetoric, criticism, linguistic history and English literature. Each of the aforementioned sections is covered in great detail; for example, there are sections on spelling, composition style, kinds of composition, the origins of the English language and excerpts from American and British literature. Boyd's introduction indicates that his vast teaching experience has proven to him that there is not a comparable text that is so varied and comprehensive available to the typical English teacher and that such a text was necessary to avoid compiling numerous books for a single class. Some of works included in the compilation: Reid's Rudiments of English Composition, Connel's Catechism of Composition, Beattie's rhetoric, Blair's rhetoric, Montgomery's lectures on poetry and literature, Lacon, Dr. Spring's lectures, Dr. Cheever's lectures. Exercises are included throughout. The Schultz Archive includes the text in its entirety with only pages 242-43 missing. Otherwise, the text is in very good condition.
    Creator/Author:
    Boyd, James R. (James Robert), 1804-1890
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/04/2016
    Date Modified:
    06/04/2019
    Date Created:
    1844
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Language Lessons: An Introductory Grammar and Composition for Intermediate and Grammar Grades

    Document thumbnail: Language Lessons: An Introductory Grammar and Composition for Intermediate and Grammar Grades
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    Description/Abstract:
    A manual aimed at teaching language through objective methods of practice and habit rather than rules and definitions.[return]Excerpt only includes preface and "miscellaneous exercises in composition"
    Creator/Author:
    Swinton, William, 1833-1892
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Created:
    1877
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • A School Manual of English Composition: for advanced grammar grades, and for high schools, academies, etc.

    Document thumbnail: A School Manual of English Composition: for advanced grammar grades, and for high schools, academies, etc.
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    Description/Abstract:
    It is strictly a manual for school-work with a strong focus on language-training.
    Creator/Author:
    Swinton, William, 1833-1892
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Created:
    1889
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • The Principles of Rhetoric and Their Application

    Document thumbnail: The Principles of Rhetoric and Their Application
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    1880 printing of the 1878 copyrighted text. The author is credited as the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College. This treatise defines rhetoric as the art of efficient communication by language, communication implying both a speaker or writer and the audience. Part one, Composition in General, discusses and illustrates the general principles of written or spoken discourse. Its sections are: grammatical purity (including good use, barbarisms, solecisms, and improprieties), choice and use of words (including clearness, force, elegance, number of words, and arrangement of words). Part two, Kinds of Composition, covers principles of narrative and argumentative composition. The appendix cover rules of punctuation. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Hill, Adams Sherman, 1833-1910
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/19/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/19/2019
    Date Created:
    1880
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Rhetoric: A Text-Book Designed for use in Schools and Colleges and for Private Study

    Document thumbnail: Rhetoric: A Text-Book Designed for use in Schools and Colleges and for Private Study
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    1869 printing of the 1869 copyrighted text. The author is credited as a Doctor of Divinity, a Doctor of the Laws of English, and the President of the University of Michigan. Based on the experiences of the author's teaching, this text in an orderly presentation of the theory of the science and art of rhetoric with illustrations and directions on how to profit from it. Includes examples for imitation and disapproval from modern and ancient, obscure and celebrated authors. Divided into five parts: words and the material of expression, figures of speech and thought, composition and style, invention, and elocution. Part one includes sections on how to acquire the knowledge of words and how to obtain a good vocabulary. Part two includes sections on dialogue, vision, and wit. Part three includes sections on taste and different genres (epistolary, historical, fiction). Part four includes sections on description, narration, abstract subjects, and discussions. Part five includes a section on the intellectual and moral elements of elocution. The Schultz Archive is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Haven, E. O. (Erastus Otis), 1820-1881
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/19/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/19/2019
    Date Created:
    1869
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • The Culture of the Observing Faculties in the Family and the School: or, Things About Home and How to make them Instructive to the Young

    Document thumbnail: The Culture of the Observing Faculties in the Family and the School: or, Things About Home and How to make them Instructive to the Young
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    1865 printing of the copyrighted 1865 text. The author is credited as the author of two other works on teaching. A guide on how to teach developing children with the "things around them." A presentation on the abilities and strengths of youth that might otherwise be ignored. The author of this text advocates education through the observation of familiar objects. His claim is that young children would learn all things more effectively if they were to learn by doing as opposed to learning through rote memorization and drilling of mechanics. It advocates for parents taking up the roll of aiding in children's intellectual development. The text offers a variety of potential learning experiences with familiar objects such as grocery shelves or animals and advances on to adult subject such as newspaper reform and partisan calumnies. The Schultz Archive includes the complete text (except pages 132-33, which are missing). The text is legible, but some of the scans are low quality, which makes them difficult to read.
    Creator/Author:
    Burnton, Warren
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/18/2016
    Date Modified:
    06/05/2019
    Date Created:
    1865
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0