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"
1914 printing of 1886 copyrighted text. Published by the American Schools for the Deaf, Hartford, Conn. Volume three in a series by the author. The text follows a plan that introduces one difficulty at a time and to teach much rather than many things. This collection of lessons featuring pictorial illustrations, story analysis, and sentence diagrams. Lessons include review questions. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 120 page text.
1889 copyrighted text. Strang is credited with a Bachelor of Arts degree. A collection of exercises based around vocabulary, language, and sentence structure. Exercises directions include: substitute words for phrases, change clauses, substitute equivalent expressions, expand simple sentences to complex, write compound and complex sentences, combine groups into sentences, break up sentences into groups, transpose into prose order, change from direct to indirect, paraphrase prose passages, and contract passages. The Schultz Archive is roughly the complete 90 page text.
1896 printing of 1896 copyrighted text. Author is credited as Teacher of English in Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. The book is a collection of speeches presented at the Brooklyn Teachers' Association on the subject of elementary composition. Chapter 1, A Word to the Reader, states the author believes composition may include speaking as well as writing and work by a community as well as work by individuals. It also voices concern about composition teaching that invents a barrier of formulas and conventionality. Chapters cover letter-writing, story-telling, word-collecting, descriptions, the simile and personification, elaboration of sentences into paragraphs, outlining compositions, criticism and other various topics. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 114 page text.
