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  • English Lessons for English People

    Document thumbnail: English Lessons for English People
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    N/A
    Creator/Author:
    Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • How to Write Clearly. Rules and Exercises on English Composition

    Document thumbnail: How to Write Clearly. Rules and Exercises on English Composition
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    Abbott's work provides rules and exercises for eliminating ambiguity in writing. The premise of this textbook is the notion that clarity, unlike many other characteristics of writing and speech, can be achieved through mechanistic rules and practice. The Schultz Archive only includes a brief excerpt, consisting of the title page, preface and partial table of contents.
    Creator/Author:
    Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    06/03/2019
    Date Created:
    1875
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Clot On a Suture Dataset: Porcine, rt-PA (3.15 ug/ml)

    Dataset thumbnail: Clot On a Suture Dataset: Porcine, rt-PA (3.15 ug/ml)
    Type:
    Dataset
    Description/Abstract:
    A raw dataset produced using the clot on a suture experimental set up in the Holland lab (previously published in Bader 2015 & other articles). Data gathered and further analyzed using MATLAB 2012b.
    Creator/Author:
    Huang, Shenwen; Holland, Christy, and Shekhar, Himanshu
    Submitter:
    Shenwen Huang
    Date Uploaded:
    12/22/2016
    Date Modified:
    05/08/2017
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Sixty Composition-Topics For Students in High Schools and Colleges with Hints on Essay-Writing

    Document thumbnail: Sixty Composition-Topics For Students in High Schools and Colleges with Hints on Essay-Writing
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    No edition or printing information is given in the copy. The author has a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College. As indicated by the subtitle, the work is intended for secondary and college students. Includes topics historical, imaginative, argumentative and subsequent brief chapters on: plan, or analysis; elaboration of points; criticism of one's own work; form of finished composition; composition an essential factor in the study of rhetoric; and figures of speech. The work seems addressed more to the teacher of the students than the students themselves. It attempts to explain how to students should mentally approach the act of writing but its language suggests a teacher thinking about the student’s mental habits rather than the student working though his own thoughts.
    Creator/Author:
    Anderson, Jessie McMillan
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    06/03/2019
    Date Created:
    1894
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • The Principles of English composition: Illustrated by Examples, with Critical remarks

    Document thumbnail: The Principles of English composition: Illustrated by Examples, with Critical remarks
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    "A new and improved Edition" of the 1831 work. Advertisement dates it to May, 1840. The author is credited as author of the Analytical Dictionary. Chapters: Of Composition and its divisions into Grammatical and Rhetorical—Distinction between Syntax and Construction—on Accent and Emphasis; Of Punctuation; Of the Construction, or Arrangement, of Sentences; Construction of Sentences continued—Comparison with the Arrangement of other languages; Of Metaphors.—Symbols; Of Figurative language generally.—Different species of Tropes; Figures of Thought; Figures of Thought continued; Of Prosopopecia, or Personification—Genders of Nouns; Of Style; Of Prosody; Of Rhyme and Alliteration; Of the different species of Verse; Of Lyric Poetry; Of Pastoral Poetry; Of the higher species of Poetry; Higher species of Poetry continued. Chapter one begins with three objects of language: to communicate impression, to recall others' knowledge, and to excite sensations in others. Schultz Archive's copy only contain the pages of chapter one and ink has transferred between adjacent pages, making some sections difficult to read.
    Creator/Author:
    Booth, David, 1766-1846
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/20/2020
    Date Created:
    1840
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • English Composition in Theory and Practice

    Document thumbnail: English Composition in Theory and Practice
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    1913 printing of the 1912 copyrighted second edition. The first edition was copyrighted in 1909. The first three authors are credited with a Ph.D. and the last two are credited with an M.A. All are "of the Department of English Composition in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University." A set of directions for good writing with a varied and extensive collection of examples drawn from all forms of discourse. Preface discusses exposition, argument, description, and narrative, and these categories serve as the different sections of the text. The introduction states that writing is a triple problem, requiring straight thinking, adequate expression, and good form. Chapters cover topics such as unity, coherence, emphasis, the paragraph, the sentence, the right word, the brief, the forms of evidence, development of full argument from brief, description, simple narrative, and the story. The appendices cover: connectives, exercises in sentence structure, exercises in the use of words, specimen brief, specimens of fallacious argument, exercises in description, exercises in narrative writing, punctuation, spelling, and a list of books. The example texts include political figures and well known literary authors. The Schultz Archive's copy contains the preface, the introduction, and the TOC.
    Creator/Author:
    Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961; MacCracken, Henry Noble; May, Alfred Arundel; Pierce, Frederick Erastus, and Wright, Thomas Goddard
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/21/2020
    Date Created:
    1913
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Practical Grammar of the English Language: in which the seven parts of speech are clearly and methodically explained

    Document thumbnail: Practical Grammar of the English Language: in which the seven parts of speech are clearly and methodically explained
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    N/A
    Creator/Author:
    Burn, John, -1793
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Created:
    1793
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • A Practical Rhetoric For Instruction in English Composition and Revision in Colleges and Intermediate Schools

    Document thumbnail: A Practical Rhetoric For Instruction in English Composition and Revision in Colleges and Intermediate Schools
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    1887 printing of 1886 copyrighted text. The author is credited with an M.A. and as Professor of Rhetoric in the College of Liberal Arts, Syracuse University. Texts strives to give rhetorical a more practical character, as training has been "impractical and fruitless." Prefaces discusses the perceived failure of education in composition and textbooks' focus on a labyrinth of abstractions, such as invention, taste, deduction, simplicity, partial exposition, feeling, perfection, the sublime, the picturesque, etc. Instead, the author emphasizes imitation and observation as the natural teachers, and that rhetorical training must be largely negative (focusing on detecting errors and revision). The text includes examples of undergraduate essays for criticism and correction. The parts: the form, the style, the thought, and versification. Chapters still use common abstractions and modes of discourse. Schultz Archive copy contains preface, suggestions to teachers, TOC, and pages 240 – 299, covering chapters from part III (the thought) on selection of a subject, the outline, description, narration, exposition, and persuasion.
    Creator/Author:
    Clark, J. Scott (John Scott), 1854-1911
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/21/2020
    Date Created:
    1887
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Complete English Grammar

    Document thumbnail: Complete English Grammar
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    1891 printing of 1891 copyrighted text. Part of the Indiana State Series. Designed to follow the Elementary English Grammar and to serve as a complete one-book course for more advanced pupils. Teaches that thought is the essential thing and language is secondary to the idea to be expressed. Principles of language are explained and illustrated before rules are given. Examples of chapters: classification of words, properties and modifications, nouns and pronouns, the verb, the preposition, the subject, noun modifiers, analysis of sentences, synthesis, construction of adjective modifiers, punctuation, prosody. Schultz Archive's copy includes preface, TOC, pages 204 – 207 and 220 – 266, which cover prose composition, composition in series, and letter writing.
    Creator/Author:
    Collett, Josephus, 1831-1893
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/21/2020
    Date Created:
    1891
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Practical Lessons in Language

    Document thumbnail: Practical Lessons in Language
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    Copyrighted 1893. The author is credited as Principal of Grammar School No. 3, Brooklyn, NY. The book is meant to cover the last two years of the primary course. Lessons are headed as "Things to Notice" and "Things to Do," while reviews are headed as "Things to Remember." It recommends that the teacher help students correct their writing while they are working on it, as opposed to making corrections after it has been written. Includes illustrations that serve as the subject matter of compositions. Includes lessons on stories for reproduction, supplying suitable words, letter writing, the parts of a statement, joining sentences, reproduction and quotation marks, words used to qualify, and composition exercises. The Schultz Archive copy contains various pages up to page 139. There is no TOC.
    Creator/Author:
    Conklin, Benjamin Y.
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/22/2020
    Date Created:
    1891
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0