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  • A System of Rhetoric

    Document thumbnail: A System of Rhetoric
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    Description/Abstract:
    No information on the printing or edition is given. The copyright is 1884. No information on the author is given. The book emphasizes adaptation as the fundamental law of rhetoric and the effects produced "at the time and under the circumstances." Conversation and letter writing are to be used to develop in the student rhetoric's important laws. Personal experience is seen as the basis for students learning narration and description. Illustrations are used throughout, particularly anecdotes and quotations from leading authors. The author specifically acknowledges _The Art of Extempore Speech_ by M. Bautain and _The Art of Reading_ by M. Legouve as influences. The sections are Sentence Making, Conversation, Letter-Writing, the Essay, the Oration, and Poetry. The chapter on conversation focuses on sociability, beginning with a chapter on "Good Breeding." The chapter on the essay is quite alliterative, its chapters: preparation, invention, style, purity, propriety, precision, perspictuity, power, perfection, and (most interestingly) preparation for the press. The Schultz Archive includes a large portion of the text; however, it is missing part I and pages 152-69, 256-303, and 504-end (Part V on oration and Part VI Poetry). The scans are good quality, but there is some highlighter that obscures text throughout.
    Creator/Author:
    Bardeen, C. W. (Charles William), 1847-1924
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/04/2016
    Date Modified:
    06/04/2019
    Date Created:
    1884
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • A Method of English Composition

    Document thumbnail: A Method of English Composition
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    This is an 1894 printing of this work. Its copyright was registered in 1884.T. Whiting Bancroft was Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in Brown University. Bancroft's composition text seeks to add a focus on rhetoric, modes and types of composition. Bancroft intends for his text to be used in conjunction with existing composition textbooks. The treatment of argumentative composition intends to show relation between deductive and inductive thought. It is divided into two sections: kinds of composition and practice in composition. Kinds of composition are broken into three parts: Explanatory, argumentative, and persuasive composition. The section on practice of composition is primarily concerned with themes. It provides examples of themes and outlines of essays that explore these themes. In the last part of the practice of composition on the relation of reading to composition, the author has credited the influence of librarians. The Schultz Archive includes the complete text; however, some of the pages are missing and have blank scans in their places. The quality of the text is high.
    Creator/Author:
    Bancroft, T. Whiting (Timothy Whiting), 1837-1890
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/04/2016
    Date Modified:
    06/04/2019
    Date Created:
    1894
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • The Expository Paragraph and Sentence: An Elementary Manual of Composition

    Document thumbnail: The Expository Paragraph and Sentence: An Elementary Manual of Composition
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    No information on edition or printing is given on the copy. The author, Charles Sears Baldwin, is a Ph.D. and an instructor in rhetoric in Yale University. This manual for first term college students is divided into three parts: the composition as a whole, the paragraph, and the sentence. Intended to prepare and supplement writing knowledge before more special courses, Baldwin's college composition text is intended only to provide students with a structural system for composition. Baldwin advocates not writing strictly by rules; rather, he suggests a basic understanding of the principles of composition. In the introduction he states there are four kinds of writing: description, narration, persuasion, and exposition. This book focuses on applying its principles exclusively to exposition. It further advocates that its rules of construction be applied in the process of revision. It uses familiar terms such as unity, coherence, clearness, and emphasis. The Schultz Archive includes the text in its entirety, and the quality of the text is high.
    Creator/Author:
    Baldwin, Charles Sears, 1867-1935
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/04/2016
    Date Modified:
    06/03/2019
    Date Created:
    1897
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Outlines of Composition: Designed to simplify and develop the principles of the art, by means of exercises in the preparation of essays, debates, lectures, and orations

    Document thumbnail: Outlines of Composition: Designed to simplify and develop the principles of the art, by means of exercises in the preparation of essays, debates, lectures, and orations
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    Description/Abstract:
    A collection of exercises aimed at improving student composition through "the formation of correct ideas and their systematic arrangement."
    Creator/Author:
    Zander, H. Joseph
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Created:
    1869
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • English Composition

    Document thumbnail: English Composition
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    Description/Abstract:
    1963 edition of text first published in 1891 as "Eight Lectures." A note by the author credits the influence of A. S. Hill, Professor Bain, Professor Genung, and Professor McElroy. It also states its new treatment is justified as none of the existing texts are quite simple enough for popular reading. The lectures cover: the elements and the qualities of style, words, sentences, paragraphs, whole compositions, clearness, force, elegance, and summary. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 316 page text.
    Creator/Author:
    Wendell, Barrett, 1855-1921
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/14/2020
    Date Created:
    1891
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • The Union Grammar

    Document thumbnail: The Union Grammar
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    Description/Abstract:
    Handwritten notes regarding the book.
    Creator/Author:
    Jaudon, Daniel, 1767-1826
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Created:
    1835
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Language Lessons: First Book

    Document thumbnail: Language Lessons: First Book
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    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

  • The Elements of English Composition: A Preparation for Rhetoric

    Document thumbnail: The Elements of English Composition: A Preparation for Rhetoric
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    1890 printing (83rd 1000) of the 1884 copyrighted text. The author is credited as Teacher of English Language and Literature in Ann Arbor High School. Chittenden's text seeks to provide young high school students with a primer of knowledge for the study of rhetoric. The author claims that the intention is to use as little theory as possible to teach the beginnings of correct writing. She details a fairly precise method that begins with the principles of English grammar and works through examples of literature, style, expression, letter-writing and more. Exercises in reproduction are designed to have students put good writing examples in their own words. Exercises in development provide students with detail, which they must then weave into a composition. Exercises in summary teach student to condense. Exercises in paraphrase teach students to rephrase with style. The Schultz Archive includes the complete text, except pages 122-23, and the scans are in good condition.
    Creator/Author:
    Chittenden, L. A. (Lucy A.)
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    06/07/2019
    Date Created:
    1884
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • A Course in Expository Writing

    Document thumbnail: A Course in Expository Writing
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    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

  • Handbook of Composition: A compendium of rules regarding good English, grammar sentence structure, paragraphing, manuscript arrangement, punctuation, spelling, essay writing, and letter writing

    Document thumbnail: Handbook of Composition: A compendium of rules regarding good English, grammar sentence structure, paragraphing, manuscript arrangement, punctuation, spelling, essay writing, and letter writing
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    1907 copyrighted text. Author is credited with a PhD and as Assistant Professor of English in the University of Wisconsin. A practical manual for students of composition for reference in case of errors in themes and for independent reference by those who want information on good usage, grammar, spelling, punctuation, paragraphing, manuscript-arrangement, and letter-writing. Preface argues the text is purposefully dogmatic, as it is necessary for most students to observe rigidly and invariably rules to which masters of the art make exceptions. The author credits the influence of Professors Adams Sherman Hill, William Dwight Whitney, Alphonso G. Newcomer, John Duncan Quackenbos, Fred Newton Scott, and Joseph Villier Denney. Section one, the Composition of Discourse, includes: introductory on the standard of good usage, diction, the structure of sentences, and the structure of larger units of discourse. Section two, Putting Discourse on Paper, covers: spelling, legibility, arrangement of manuscript, alterations in manuscript, punctuation, syllabication, abbreviations, etc. Section three is Analytical Outlines; section four, Letter-Writing; section five, a Glossary of Miscellaneous faulty expressions. The appendices cover: exercises for breaking certain bad habits in writing and speaking, a grammatical vocabulary, and a list of words that are often mispronounced. The Schultz Archive is roughly the complete 239 page text.
    Creator/Author:
    Woolley, Edwin C. (Edwin Campbell), 1878-1916
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/16/2020
    Date Created:
    1907
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0