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  • English Composition: adapted to the wants of high schools, preparatory schools, and academies

    Document thumbnail: English Composition: adapted to the wants of high schools, preparatory schools, and academies
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    Document
    Descripción/Resumen:
    1896 printing of 1889 copyrighted text. Author is credited with a Master of Arts, (of) Ohio State University, and as the author of several other texts on various subjects. A manual for school work that is a sequel to ordinary grammar textbooks and an introduction to rhetoric. For a composition course that develops critical literary taste, habits of systematic investigation, and the power of expressing a train of thought in appropriate language. Subjects are progressive in arrangement and exercises are graduated. The exercises cover kinds of discourse: descriptive, narrative, and discursive. Paraphrasing, reproduction from memory, classification of thoughts, topical analysis, summarizing, punctuation, letter writing, and versification are also covered. The author credits the influence of Meiklejohn, Dagleish, Armstrong, Hiley, Reid, Monfries, Murison, Brewer, Laurie, Isbister, Leitch, Bardeen, Southworth, and Goddard. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 204 page text.
    Creador/Autor:
    Welsh, Alfred H. (Alfred Hix), 1850-1889
    Peticionario:
    Russel Durst
    Fecha modificada:
    05/23/2016
    Fecha modificada:
    08/14/2020
    Fecha de creacion:
    1896
    Licencia:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0