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- 1887 copyrighted text. Author is credited with a Master of Arts, a PhD, as Ex-President of Delaware College, and as the author of several educational texts. The preface states to be a treatise on rhetoric and composition that is practical and teachable. It identifies two objectives: teaching ease, grace, fluency and correctness; enabling discernment and appreciation of literary works. Lessons are followed by copious exercises. These exercises include criticism of faulty expressions and construction of sentences, figures, etc. The section headings are: capital letters, punctuation, letter-writing, rhetoric (broken into style, sentences, paragraphing, figurative language, variety of expression, special properties of style and varieties of style), composition (broken into invention, parts of composition, prose composition, poetry, and versification), and rhetoric and literature. The Schultz Archive copy includes the preface, TOC, and pages 54 – 93, and 258 - 285. Some pages are difficult to read due to quality of the copying.
- Creator/Author:
- Raub, Albert N. (Albert Newton), 1840-1904
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/24/2016
- Date Modified:
- 08/11/2020
- Date Created:
- 1887
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- 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
- Type:
- Document
- Description/Abstract:
- Preface dated 1878. Author is credited with a Master of Arts degree and as Professor of Logic, Rhetoric, and English at the University of Rochester. Based on the author's teaching experience, this work supplements students' education in general grammar with teaching of grammar more specific to the English language. It also covers style and figurative language. It is intended for high schools and academies (the author wants students to possess this knowledge before entering college). It also offers advice on how to teach and structure lessons and assignments. The Schultz Archive copy contains the preface and pages 100 – 112, which are from a chapter titled Praxis in Composition.
- Creator/Author:
- Gilmore, J. H. (Joseph Henry), 1834-1918
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/24/2016
- Date Modified:
- 07/23/2020
- Date Created:
- 1887
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Type:
- Document
- Description/Abstract:
- 1887 printing of the 1886 copyrighted text. The author is credited as the author of Arithmetic for Young Children. Willard Scott is the editor of this American edition. The introduction explains that this book contains exercises for children too young to read or write. The exercises involve examining objects to develop attention, memory, judgment, and invention. The book provides instructions for teachers on how to conduct conversations with children about the objects in the lessons. The book has three parts: exercises on familiar objects, practical exercises for the senses and hand, exercises for the body for young children. The exercises include questions to ask children and activities for them to perform (with detailed directions). The book also includes a few illustrations to guide students in their exercises. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
- Creator/Author:
- Grant, Horace, active 1838-1886 and Small, Willard (editor)
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/18/2016
- Date Modified:
- 07/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 1887
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Type:
- Document
- Description/Abstract:
- 1887 printing of the enlarged edition of the first part of Bain's English Composition and Rhetoric. Alexander Bain is a Doctor of Laws of English and Emeritus Professor of Logic in the University of Aberdeen.The first part, Intellectual Elements of Style (included here), is focused on "Elements of Style that concern the understanding." The second part is about the "emotional qualities." This "re-modeling" is designed to narrow the scope and devote more attention to certain portions chosen for their utility. Its topics are order of words; number of words; the sentence; the paragraph; figures of speech; and the qualities of style: clearness, simplicity, impressiveness, and picturesqueness. Bain states that these topics are expounded, exemplified, and applied to the arts of criticism and composition. Bain has somewhat reordered the contents that was previously sectioned under the kinds of composition (description, narration, exposition, oratory). The Schultz Archive copy is the complete text of part first of the enlarged edition.
- Creator/Author:
- Bain, Alexander, 1818-1903
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/04/2016
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 1887
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Type:
- Document
- Description/Abstract:
- 1887 printing of the revised American edition. The copyright page states it was registered in 1866. Alexander Bain had a Master of Arts and was Professor of Logic in the University of Aberdeen. It states an interest in methodizing instruction in english composition, stating that little can be done to cultivate students' fund of expression, but that they can be taught to discriminate between good and bad expression. Rhetoric is defined as "the means whereby language, spoken or written, may be rendered effective." The text is divided into two parts. Part one deals with composition in general, particularly figures of speech, qualities of style, the sentence, and the paragraph. Part two deal with five kinds or modes of composition: description, narration (historical composition), exposition (science), oratory (persuasion), and poetry. Its rules and principles are accompanied with examples from canonical texts. It also includes analyzed extracts in its appendix. The Schultz Archive's copy is the complete text.
- Creator/Author:
- Bain, Alexander, 1818-1903
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/04/2016
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 1887
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0